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京剧

Jīng jù

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 京劇 Measure word 场、出

京剧 (jīng jù) means "Beijing opera". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 京剧 means

1. Beijing opera

The characters in 京剧

• 京jīngcapital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old)
• 剧jùtheatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute

Sounds the same

Read Jīng jù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惊惧to be alarmed; to be terrified
• 惊遽in a panic; stunned

Where 京剧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Culture, arts & media (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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