彩 cǎi
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 彡 — hair
- Made of
- 采 to collect, to gather 彡 hair
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
彩票
cǎipiào
lottery ticket
Characters in this word
票 piào
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 示 — altar
- Made of
- 覀 west, western, westward 示 altar
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我买了彩票。 Wǒ mǎi le cǎi piào. I bought a lottery ticket.
- 彩票中奖了。 Cǎi piào zhòng jiǎng le. The lottery ticket won a prize.
- 他卖彩票。 Tā mài cǎi piào. He sells lottery tickets.