First opened Saturday, June 12, 2010
切符
きっぷ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
a ticket
Kippu is 切る (kiru, “cut”) plus 符 (fu, “tally split in half used for identification”).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
切符は三日間有効だ。
The ticket holds good for three days.
これが帰りの切符だ。
Here's my return ticket.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From 切(き)る (kiru, “cut, slice, carve”) + 符(ふ) (fu, “tally split in half used for identification”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 切符 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).