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(wǎng fǎn piào) - return ticket, round-trip ticket in Mandarin

wǎngfǎnpiào

Traditional: 往返票

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Translation

return ticket, round-trip ticket

Stroke order

Stroke order for 往

Stroke order for 返

Stroke order for 票

Examples

I'd like to buy a return ticket.

A return ticket is usually cheaper than two single tickets.

When does this return ticket expire?

We bought a return ticket to Paris.

Please show your return ticket.

往返票 (wǎngfǎnpiào) is a return ticket. 往 (wǎng) means "towards, to go", 返 (fǎn) means "to return, to come back", and 票 (piào) is ticket, so the compound covers both directions of a journey in one word.

It is standard travel-booking vocabulary alongside 单程票 (dānchéngpiào, single ticket), and comes up constantly at train, bus and airport counters and on booking apps.

返 (fǎn) is worth noting on its own: it appears in other "return, back" words too, such as 返回 (fǎnhuí, to return, to go back), so recognising it here makes those easier to guess later.

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This word is part of lesson 109.