fùjìng
supporting painted-face role
- supporting painted-face role
- A supporting role in traditional Chinese opera, focusing more on spoken lines, movement, and gestures than singing; often used for bold, rough, or humorous characters.
- comic role
- A role in older theatrical forms like Song Dynasty zaju or Jin Dynasty yuanben that specialized in comedy, slapstick, or playing the delivery of jokes.
- secondary jing role
- In Yuan Dynasty zaju, a secondary jing (painted face) character role.