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HSK
game / CL: 場|场 / to play
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戏* | 戏* | *戏
trick / drama / play / show / CL: 齣|出, 場|场, 臺|台
HSK 5
a drama; a play; theater / script of a play
HSK 5
Chinese opera
HSK 6
to put on a play / to perform / fig. to pretend / to feign
HSK 7-9
video game console
video game machine / video game console
HSK 6
actor's lines (in theater)
to shoot a movie
HSK 7-9
to play a game
Yu-Gi-Oh!
psychological drama
(neologism c. 2017) melodramatic person / drama queen
computer and video games
to perform conjuring tricks / to conjure / to juggle
opera (or role) involving much singing and action / (fig.) highlight / main feature / major activity
Shanghai Theatrical Institute
the role an actor plays best (idiom) / (fig.) one's specialty / one's forte
(coll.) promising / likely to turn out well
to act in a play / to put on a play
to watch a play / to watch passively (i.e. from the sidelines, from the crowd)
foreplay
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戏* | 戏* | *戏
variant of 戲|戏
HSK 5
theater
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧, Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧, Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧 etc
sex scene (in a movie etc)
to banter / to crack jokes / to ridicule
to start an opera
child's play / trifling matter
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧, Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧, Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧 etc
to frolic; to romp
next-to-last item on a program (theater) / climax
fun and mockery
fiction comes true / play-acting that turns into reality
puppet show
large-scale Chinese opera / Beijing opera / major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc)
to attend an opera / to see an opera
circus
HSK 7-9
theatrical performance (e.g. on religious festival)
to perform in opera
puppet show
gamepad
acrobatics; jugglery / trick; ploy
playground
to play tricks on / to make fun of / to tease
hat trick (when one player scores three goals)
Game of Thrones (TV series)
a network computer game
to amuse oneself / to play with / to tease
Beijing opera / CL: 齣|出
(of an actor) to inhabit one's role / to become the character / (of an audience) to get involved in the drama
the best part of the show is yet to come / (with ironic tone) the worst is yet to come / you ain't seen nothin' yet
(dialect) veteran actor / old trouper
gamepad (Tw)
Central Academy of Drama
model theater (operas and ballets produced during the Cultural Revolution)
scene (in a movie etc) / one's part in a movie or play / (archaic) actor's payment
Anhui local opera
(derog.) opera singer / actor
period costume drama (on TV)
crossword
opera highlights performed as independent pieces
a parody / to parody
to jokingly call / jocular appellation
lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun / to play along according to local conditions
(coll.) not a chance / no way / hopeless
role-playing game (RPG)
cat and mouse game
monkey show
theatrical
three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
end of a show
(theater etc) ticket
joking matter / to go back on one's words
dramatic form consisting of historical narration / history as jocular narrative / to stretch history for a joking story / amusing story with strained interpretations of history / to make an unreasonable comparison in jest
(opera, drama, film) fight scene
to joke
opera for popular in Sichuan and Yunnan
gaming device / controller (for computer or console)
monodrama / one-man show / comic talk
to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities
sex scene (in a movie etc)
magic trick
open-air amphitheater
Gaojia opera of Fujian and Taiwan
to perform magic / to do magic tricks / prestidigitation
to insult
to put on a rival show (idiom); to set oneself up against sb / to get into confrontation
glove puppet (Tw)
dramatist / playwright
(opera, drama, film) non-action scene
to direct a movie or play
jigsaw puzzle; wood block puzzle
to accept an acting role
drive-in theater
stage
Huangmei opera (local opera of Anhui)
glove puppet / CL:
type of opera from Taiwan and Fujian

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