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剧
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Definitions
- 1. theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc)
- 2. dramatic (change, increase etc)
- 3. acute
- 4. severe
Words Containing 剧
satellite television show
histrionic personality disorder (HPD)
cinema
theater company
to mime
amphitheater
La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克[bā ěr zhā kè]
New Play Comrade Society, Chinese theatrical company founded in 1912, a continuation of the Spring Willow Society 春柳社[chūn liǔ shè]
Anhui opera
Sichuan opera
to binge-watch (TV)
historical drama
tragedy
serialized drama
stage play
popular show (on TV or other media)
dramatist
the world of Chinese opera
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
Yi opera
radio drama
Shanghai opera
becoming acute
screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc)
idol drama
spin-off series (TV)
tragic flaw (Aristotle's hamartia)
The End (appearing at the end of a movie etc)
highly toxic
script for play, opera, movie etc
Wuxi opera (which developed in the area around 無錫|无锡[wú xī])
see 崑曲|昆曲[kūn qǔ]
tragedy
Shanghai Grand Theater
comedy
pantomime
The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
romantic comedy
Henan opera
stage play
contemporary drama
to intensify
Four Great Yuan Dramatists, namely: Guan Hanqing 關漢卿|关汉卿[guān hàn qīng], Zheng Guangzu 鄭光祖|郑光祖[zhèng guāng zǔ], Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠|马致远[mǎ zhì yuǎn] and Bai Pu 白樸|白朴[bái pǔ]
tragic
a drama; a play; theater
Cantonese opera
time travel series (on TV)
the Capital Theater (in Beijing)
dramatic
theatrical
musical theater
(neologism c. 2016) no tv shows to watch
ballet
repertory
story line
comedy
tragicomedy
acute pain
a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy
to write a play
farce
Shaoxing opera
to perform a play
fun and mockery
cast and crew
Central Academy of Drama
murder mystery game (role-playing game)
theatrical piece (play or opera)
rapid; sudden
bourgeois tragedy
absurd drama
to watch a TV series etc regularly
soap opera (loanword)
film and theater
web series
theater
puppet show
practical joke
theater
tragedy of the commons (economics)
blog drama (netspeak)
to change dramatically
costume drama
photo taken during a theatrical production
opera house
Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[xīn wén huà yùn dòng], continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會|新剧同志会[xīn jù tóng zhì huì]
Xiang opera (Hunan)
theatrical troupe
to quit watching a TV series
Western opera
violent; acute; severe; fierce
Puzhou opera of Shanxi Province
Yangge opera, a rural form of theater
period costume drama (on TV)
dramatic increase
plot leak
Xieju opera (ballad and dancing monologue, popular in Sichuan)
farce
screenplay
playwright
Beijing opera
Dong opera
Shanghai Theatrical Institute
TV series
variety of opera popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan
play in several acts