Beijing opera

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Beijing opera (uncountable)

1. (music) A form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics.

Synonyms

• Peking opera
• Jingju
• Jingxi

Translations

form of Chinese theatre

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (mainland China) 京劇 (cmn), 京剧 (cmn) (Jīngjù), 京戲 (cmn), 京戏 (cmn) (Jīngxì), (Taiwan) 國劇 (cmn), 国剧 (cmn) (Guójù)

• Finnish: Pekingin (fi) ooppera (fi)
• French: opéra de Pékin (fr) m, opéra de Beijing (fr) m
• German: Peking-Oper (de) f, Pekingoper (de) f

• Japanese: 京劇 (ja) (きょうげき, Kyōgeki), ジンジュウ (ja) (Jinjū)
• Korean: 경극 (ko) (Gyeong-geuk) (京劇 (ko))
• Russian: пекинская опера (ru) (pekínskaja ópera) f, цзинцзюй (ru) (czinczjúj) m
• Vietnamese: Kinh kịch (vi) (京劇 (vi)), kinh hí (vi)

See also

• Yueju opera (越劇)), Shaoxing Opera
• Cantonese opera (can also be called Yueju (粵劇))