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HSK
game / CL: 場|场 / to play
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *戏* | 戏* | *戏
variant of 戲|戏
HSK 5
Chinese opera
HSK 6
video game machine / video game console
HSK 6
to put on a play / to perform / fig. to pretend / to feign
HSK 7-9
to shoot a movie
HSK 7-9
circus
HSK 7-9
stage
Huangmei opera (local opera of Anhui)
to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities
to act in a play / to put on a play
magic trick
to watch a play / to watch passively (i.e. from the sidelines, from the crowd)
to amuse oneself / to play with / to tease
to play tricks on / to make fun of / to tease
opera (or role) involving much singing and action / (fig.) highlight / main feature / major activity
acrobatics; jugglery / trick; ploy
sex scene (in a movie etc)
to frolic; to romp
theatrical piece; (fig.) scenario (in real life)
child's play / trifling matter
to jokingly call / jocular appellation
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
(derog.) opera singer / actor
theater
to perform in opera
Shanghai Theatrical Institute
to attend an opera / to see an opera
joking matter / to go back on one's words
the role an actor plays best (idiom) / (fig.) one's specialty / one's forte
opera highlights performed as independent pieces
large-scale Chinese opera / Beijing opera / major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc)
lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun / to play along according to local conditions
actor's lines (in theater)
monkey show
to start an opera
Beijing opera / CL: 齣|出
theatrical performance (e.g. on religious festival)
type of opera from Taiwan and Fujian
next-to-last item on a program (theater) / climax
(theater etc) ticket
to put on a rival show (idiom); to set oneself up against sb / to get into confrontation
end of a show
to regard sth as a plaything (idiom); to consider unimportant / to view as trifling
to joke
scene (in a movie etc) / one's part in a movie or play / (archaic) actor's payment
Shandong opera
to banter / to crack jokes / to ridicule
computer and video games
glove puppet / CL:
a parody / to parody
glove puppetry
kissing scene (in a movie etc)
to insult
foreplay
to direct a movie or play
circus
the best part (of a play etc)
dramatic
fun and mockery
Anhui local opera
acrobatics / entertainment at folk festival
to play a game
lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water / fig. to make love
gamepad
opera form popular along Changjiang
(dialect) veteran actor / old trouper
(neologism c. 2017) melodramatic person / drama queen
(of an actor) to inhabit one's role / to become the character / (of an audience) to get involved in the drama
puppet show
gaming device / controller (for computer or console)
(coll.) promising / likely to turn out well
to perform conjuring tricks / to conjure / to juggle
Central Academy of Drama
theatrical
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
dramatist / playwright
three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
psychological drama
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧, Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧, Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧 etc
fiction comes true / play-acting that turns into reality
hat trick (when one player scores three goals)
sex scene (in a movie etc)
to accept an acting role
role-playing game (RPG)
sinister plot / dirty trick / cheap trick
(of an actor) to disengage from the performance (e.g. after the show ends) / (of an audience) to lose interest in the performance
model theater (operas and ballets produced during the Cultural Revolution)
Game of Thrones (TV series)
shadow play
opera for popular in Sichuan and Yunnan
to perform magic / to do magic tricks / prestidigitation
video game console
Yu-Gi-Oh!
to act in a play / (of an amateur) to play a part in a professional performance
puppet show
puppet show

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