乗車券

Japanese

Kanji in this term
乗	車	券
じょう Grade: 3	しゃ Grade: 1	けん Grade: 6
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
乘車券 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

乗車 (jōsha, “riding a means of transportation”) +‎ 券 (-ken, “ticket”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) じょーしゃけん [jòósháꜜkèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
IPA^(key): [d͡ʑo̞ːɕa̠kẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

乗(じょう)車(しゃ)券(けん) • (jōshaken)

ticket for riding a means of transportation

Hypernyms

切符(きっぷ) (kippu, “ticket”)

Derived terms

回数乗車券(かいすうじょうしゃけん) (kaisū jōshaken)
定期乗車券(ていきじょうしゃけん) (teiki jōshaken)

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN