Example sentences
wǒ我mǎi买le了liǎng两zhāng张piào票。
I bought two tickets.
huǒ火chē车piào票duō多shao少qián钱？
How much is the train ticket?
The story behind the character
票
票 stacks 覀 over 示. Xu Shen glossed it as 火飛也, fire flying upward. Sparks. That was the original meaning, and it has nothing to do with tickets. The ticket sense is a much later borrowing, and nobody wrote down the moment it happened. Your 票 began as sparks off a fire.