京腔

jīngqiāng
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Beijing accent
  2. 2 Beijing dialect speech

Examples

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

Tips

culture
Xinhua词典 defines 京腔 simply as 'Beijing pronunciation'. Distinct from 普通话 — Standard Mandarin was built on the Beijing phoneme inventory but lacks the heavy erhua, swallowed syllables, and 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) that preceded Peking opera. In modern speech, almost always means 'Beijing accent' of everyday Mandarin.

Stroke Order

jīng
qiāng