剧
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theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 刀 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 剧
- Common rank
- #723
- Unicode
- U+5267
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
drama · Heisig RSH #890
居 reside + saber
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 剧
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上海大剧院 | Shanghai Grand Theater | |
| 行动剧 | (Tw) street theater (esp. as a form of political expression) | |
| 剧作家 | playwright | |
| 上海戏剧学院 | Shanghai Theatre Academy | |
| 上星剧 | satellite television show | |
| 新剧同志会 | New Play Comrade Society, Chinese theatrical company founded in 1912, a continuation of th… | |
| 电影剧本 | screenplay; film script | |
| 杂剧四大家 | Four Great Yuan Dramatists, namely: Guan Hanqing 關漢卿|关汉卿[Guan1 Han4 qing1], Zheng Guangzu … | |
| 音乐剧 | (theater, cinema) a musical | |
| 电视剧 | TV series; TV drama; CL:部[bu4] | |
| 时装剧 | contemporary drama | |
| 人间喜剧 | La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克… | |
| 活报剧 | political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theat… | |
| 古装剧 | costume drama | |
| 加剧 | to intensify | |
| 剧本 | script; screenplay; scenario; libretto | |
| 剧本杀 | murder mystery game (role-playing game) | |
| 保留剧目 | repertory; repertoire; repertory item | |
| 美剧 | American TV series (abbr. for 美國電視劇|美国电视剧[Mei3 guo2 dian4 shi4 ju4]) | |
| 爱情喜剧 | romantic comedy |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 居 — compare how they read.