皮影

Chinese

		leather; skin; fur	picture; image; reflection picture; image; reflection; shadow
simp. and trad. (皮影)		皮	影

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): píyǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ ㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴ jing²
• Jin (Wiktionary): pi¹ ing²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: píyǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ ㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: píyǐng
    • Wade–Giles: pʻi²-ying³
    • Yale: pí-yǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyiyiing
    • Palladius: пиин (piin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵ iŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pei⁴ jing²
    • Yale: pèih yíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴ jing²
    • Guangdong Romanization: péi⁴ ying²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹ jɪŋ³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: pi¹ ing²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /pʰi¹¹ iŋ⁵³/

Noun

皮影

1. Short for 皮影戲／皮影戏 (píyǐngxì, “shadow play; shadow puppets; leather-silhouette show”).

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 皮影戲 (“shadow play”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		皮影戲, 驢皮影, 燈影戲, 影戲
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	皮影兒戲, 驢皮影兒
	Taiwan	皮影戲
	Harbin	皮影兒戲, 驢皮影兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	皮影, 驢皮影
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	戳影子戲
	Xi'an	燈影兒
	Xining	皮娃娃
	Xuzhou	皮影兒, 皮影戲
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	牛皮燈影子, 燈影子
	Lanzhou	皮影子, 燈影子
	Ürümqi	皮影子
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	皮燈影兒戲, 燈影兒戲, 燈影兒
	Wuhan	皮影子戲, 皮影戲, 影戲
	Liuzhou	皮影戲
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	皮影戲
	Yangzhou	影子戲
Cantonese	Hong Kong	皮影戲
Gan	Pingxiang	影子戲
Hakka	Meixian	驢皮戲, 皮影戲
Jin	Taiyuan	戳皮, 皮影
Southern Min	Xiamen	皮影戲, 紙影仔, 皮猴戲
	Quanzhou	皮影戲
	Zhangzhou	皮影戲, 紙影仔
	Tainan	皮猴戲
	Jieyang	紙影戲, 紙影
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	皮影戲
Wu	Shanghai	皮影戲
	Danyang	皮影戲
	Hangzhou	影子戲
	Ningbo	皮影戲
Xiang	Changsha	皮影戲, 游樂和, 影子戲
	Loudi	影子戲