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TV series / TV drama / CL:
HSK 3
serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
HSK 3
Beijing opera / CL: 場|场, 齣|出
HSK 3
stage play / modern drama / CL: 臺|台,
HSK 3
a drama; a play; theater / script of a play
HSK 5
a comedy / CL: , 齣|出
HSK 5
tragedy / CL: 齣|出
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *劇* | 劇* | *劇
theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc) / dramatic (change, increase etc) / acute / severe
HSK 6
Western opera / CL: 場|场, 齣|出
HSK 7-9
to write a play / scenario / dramatist / screenwriter
HSK 7-9
rapid; sudden
HSK 7-9
to intensify
HSK 7-9
short play; sketch; skit / (neologism c. 2020) short-form video drama (esp. episodic videos made for mobile platforms, typically less than 5 minutes per episode)
screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc)
practical joke / prank / to play a practical joke
radio drama
web series
(theater, cinema) a musical
Cantonese opera
Sichuan opera
Wuxi opera (which developed in the area around Wuxi 無錫|无锡)
dance drama / ballet
tragedy / calamity / atrocity
soap opera (loanword)
Shaoxing opera
pantomime; mime show
bourgeois tragedy
pantomime; mime show
La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克
a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy
Henan opera
Puzhou opera of Shanxi Province
absurd drama / farce / disgraceful show
Xiang opera (Hunan)
farce
Yangge opera, a rural form of theater
comedy / farce
Xieju opera (ballad and dancing monologue, popular in Sichuan)
Anhui opera
political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s)
to perform a play
tragicomedy
play in several acts / full-length drama
American TV series (abbr. for 美國電視劇|美国电视剧)
Yi opera
becoming acute / to exacerbate
Dong opera
to watch a TV series etc regularly / to binge-watch
film and theater / screen and stage
popular show (on TV or other media)
costume drama
romantic comedy
time travel series (on TV)
contemporary drama
anime series
stage play
spin-off series (TV)
fun and mockery
(Tw) street theater (esp. as a form of political expression)
satellite television show
idol drama / drama series in which the actors are chosen for their preexisting popularity with young viewers
tragedy of the commons (economics)
to binge-watch (TV)
blog drama (netspeak)
variant of 侗劇|侗剧
sitcom
period costume drama (on TV)
puppet show
to quit watching a TV series
historical drama
Shanghai opera
variety of opera popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan
miniseries
(slang) poorly made TV drama (featuring absurd plots, terrible acting etc); a cringeworthy show (often so bad it's entertaining)


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