乐透

樂透
lètòu
noun

Measure Word

一张乐透 zhāng

Meanings

  1. 1 lotto (loanword)
  2. 2 lottery

Examples

Tā měi zhōu mǎi yī zhāng lètòu, xīwàng zhòng dàjiǎng.
He buys a lottery ticket every week, hoping to win the jackpot.
Zhè jiā biànlìdiàn kěyǐ mǎi lètòu.
You can buy lotto tickets at this convenience store.

Tips

memory
Loanword: lè-tòu sounds like 'lotto', and the characters happen to mean 'happy through' — a perfect phono-semantic match. Common in Taiwan; mainland uses 乐透 alongside the broader 彩票 (cǎipiào, lottery ticket).

Stroke Order

tòu