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game / CL: 場|场 / to play
HSK 3
a drama; a play; theater / script of a play
HSK 5
Chinese opera
HSK 6
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  *戲* | 戲* | *戲
trick / drama / play / show / CL: 齣|出, 場|场, 臺|台
HSK 5
to put on a play / to perform / fig. to pretend / to feign
HSK 7-9
large-scale Chinese opera / Beijing opera / major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc)
Shanghai Theatrical Institute
to play a game
Beijing opera / CL: 齣|出
dramatic
video game machine / video game console
HSK 6
to perform in opera
(of an actor) to inhabit one's role / to become the character / (of an audience) to get involved in the drama
(derog.) opera singer / actor
theatrical performance (e.g. on religious festival)
child's play / trifling matter
circus
HSK 7-9
to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities
theater
Game of Thrones (TV series)
to regard sth as a plaything (idiom); to consider unimportant / to view as trifling
video game console
to act in a play / to put on a play
scene (in a movie etc) / one's part in a movie or play / (archaic) actor's payment
to banter / to crack jokes / to ridicule
to shoot a movie
HSK 7-9
a parody / to parody
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
crossword
to play tricks on / to make fun of / to tease
foreplay
to perform conjuring tricks / to conjure / to juggle
computer and video games
the role an actor plays best (idiom) / (fig.) one's specialty / one's forte
opera (or role) involving much singing and action / (fig.) highlight / main feature / major activity
dramatist / playwright
a network computer game
circus
to accept an acting role
theory of free play (in Kant's philosophy)
monodrama / one-man show / comic talk
to direct a movie or play
lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom); to join in the fun / to play along according to local conditions
three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
Yu-Gi-Oh!
to frolic; to romp
(theater etc) ticket
fiction comes true / play-acting that turns into reality
kissing scene (in a movie etc)
theatrical
puppet show
(neologism c. 2017) melodramatic person / drama queen
gamepad
psychological drama
Gaojia opera of Fujian and Taiwan
sinister plot / dirty trick / cheap trick
glove puppet (Tw)
end of a show
to joke
to amuse oneself / to play with / to tease
role-playing game (RPG)
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
to watch a play / to watch passively (i.e. from the sidelines, from the crowd)
puppet show
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧, Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧, Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧 etc
period costume drama (on TV)
jigsaw puzzle; wood block puzzle
to attend an opera / to see an opera
to perform magic / to do magic tricks / prestidigitation
drive-in theater
puppet show
acrobatics; jugglery / trick; ploy
type of opera from Taiwan and Fujian
cat and mouse game
to act in a play / (of an amateur) to play a part in a professional performance
last item on a show / grand finale
gamepad (Tw)
lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water / fig. to make love
Huangmei opera (local opera of Anhui)
actor's lines (in theater)
Anhui local opera
(of an actor) to disengage from the performance (e.g. after the show ends) / (of an audience) to lose interest in the performance
to put on a rival show (idiom); to set oneself up against sb / to get into confrontation
to insult
Shandong opera
acrobatics / entertainment at folk festival
opera for popular in Sichuan and Yunnan
last item on a program (theater)
stage
(opera, drama, film) fight scene
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越劇|越剧, Sichuan opera 川劇|川剧, Henan opera 豫劇|豫剧 etc
hat trick (when one player scores three goals)
joking matter / to go back on one's words
opera form popular along Changjiang
paddling pool / wading pool
monkey show
open-air amphitheater
to jokingly call / jocular appellation

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