京腔

jīngqiāng
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Beijing accent
  2. 2 Beijing dialect speech

Examples

HSK 2
Tīng tā shuōhuà, mǎn kǒu jīngqiāng.
When you hear him talk, every word is pure Beijing.
HSK 7-9
Tā yì kǒu dìdào de jīngqiāng.
He speaks a pure Beijing accent.
HSK 7-9
Jīngqiāng lǐ érhuà yīn tèbié duō.
Beijing speech has an especially heavy erhua.

Tips

culture
京腔 simply means 'Beijing pronunciation'. Distinct from 普通话 - Standard Mandarin was built on the Beijing phoneme inventory but lacks the heavy erhua, swallowed syllables, and 儿化 vocabulary (胡同儿, 没门儿, 哥们儿) that mark a real 京腔 speaker.
usage
Also refers historically to a Qing-dynasty operatic style (京腔戏) that preceded Peking opera. In modern speech, almost always means 'Beijing accent' of everyday Mandarin.

Stroke Order

jīng
qiāng