| Kanji | 票 |
|---|---|
| Onyomi | ヒョウ |
| English | ballot, label, ticket, sign |
| Examples | 投票(とうひょう): voting; poll 票(ひょう): (1) vote; ballot (2) label; ticket; tag; stub |
| JLPT Level | 1 |
| Jouyou Grade | 4 |
| Frequency | 489 |
| Components | 襾: cover; place on top of; west radical variant (no. 146) 示: show; indicate; point out; express; display |
| Number of Strokes | 11 |
| Kanji Radical | 示 |
| Radical Number | 113 |
| Radical Strokes | 5 |
| Radical Reading | しめす・しめすへん |
| Traditional Form | (none) |
| Classification | 会意 Compound Ideographic |
| Keyword | ballot |
| Koohii Story 1 | In the Old West there were no ballot boxes. Afraid of fraud and fighting among the gunslingers, the ballots were posted into a slot in the top of the local church altar instead. They may have been rough, but the cowboys wouldn´t fight in the church. |
| Koohii Story 2 | In western political elections (US), peoples ballots will often depend on religion and at which altar the prospective president prays. |
Tags: grade4, jlpt.n1, kanjifreq251-500
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