Memory phrase for the Kanji: 票


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Meaning vote, ballot

Pronunciation

HYŌ

Explanation

Top: west 西 (Sunset of the sun under the horizon in the west), below: to show 示/ (image of an altar with sth. on that is shown.)

Mnemonic


 
In the west you show your vote in a ballot/poll.

Radicals

vote, ballotIt is flat , there can be two || next to each other and it is flat and you show 示 it: The note at a ballot.
西 westThe upper stroke can be seen as horizon, with a variation of sun and two legs , which here stand for a downward motion: Below the horizon sinks the sun (at sunset) in the west.
to show, altarThe radical shimesu is a simplification of show 示, which is a pictogram of an altar.
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 Vocabulary

ひょう  label, ballot, ticket, sign
投票 とうひょう  voting, poll

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