折子戏 / 折子戲

zhé​zi​xì

opera highlights

Individual acts or scenes from a traditional opera that are performed as independent pieces because of their popularity.

折 (literal) → 折 · zhé · [classifier] 子 (bound) → 子 · zi · noun suffix 戏 (literal) → 戏/戲 · xì · drama

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM