English
fapiao
Fapiao comes from Mandarin 發票.
- Mandarinmodern發票fāpiào
- Englishearliest quotation 2015fapiao
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Mandarinmodern發票fāpiào
- Englishearliest quotation 2015fapiao
Earliest quotation: 2015, George Ding, How to Cheat on Taxes in China: “If I spent all my income to generate fapiao…”
Every English word from Mandarin 發票
Today it means
noun A kind of receipt that serves as a tax document and sometimes also as a lottery ticket, used in China and Taiwan.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Mandarin 發票 / fapiao