大戲

简 大戏 · 繁 大戲
Mandarin · pinyin dà xì

Meanings

  1. large-scale Chinese opera
  2. Beijing opera
  3. major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc)
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大
dà · big, great, vast, large, high
戲
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戏
xì · theatrical play, show
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4–4 · da4 xi4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daai6 hei3

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noun

  1. opera, especially: — full-scale drama or traditional Chinese opera (Classifier: 齣/出 m c)
  2. opera, especially: — (dialectal, colloquial) Beijing opera
  3. opera, especially: — (Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macau) Cantonese opera (Classifier: 齣/出 c)

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