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  *演* | 演* | *演
to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show) / (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task)
HSK 3
play / show / performance / exhibition / to perform / to act / to demonstrate / CL: 場|场
HSK 3
to direct / director (film etc)
HSK 3
to play the role of / to act
HSK 5
to screen (a movie) / to stage (a play) / a screening / a staging
HSK 6
to play the leading role; to star / lead actor
HSK 7-9
to appear (in a show etc) / an appearance (on stage etc)
HSK 7-9
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run
history repeats itself
joint performance
(theater etc) to tour; to be on tour; to give itinerant performances (abbr. for 巡迴演出|巡回演出)
military exercises
to act / to play a part
dummy run / to run through sth / to rehearse
to direct a movie in which one also plays a major role as an actor / (fig.) to plan and execute a scheme all by oneself
maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing
variant of 敷衍 / to elaborate (on a theme) / to expound (the meaning of the classics)
road show or promotional tour (for a product etc)
to deduce / to infer / to derive / an implication
to lecture / to speak publicly
benefit performance / charity show
to act together / to put on a joint performance
to rehearse (a performance)
to perform in public; to give a performance
audition / dress rehearsal / preview (of a theatrical performance) / dummy run
to repeat an old stratagem / up to one's old tricks
drill / exercise / demonstration / to demonstrate
an extra (in a movie) (abbr. for 臨時演員|临时演员)
leading actors (in a show) / starring
natural change / evolution (early translation, since replaced by 進化|进化)
(Tw) to screen a movie
to stop performing a play / to interrupt a stage run
film director
commercial performance
fashion show
extra (actor engaged to appear in a crowd scene) (abbr. for 群眾演員|群众演员)
war-gaming; simulation of a military operation
to go on stage
to put on extra shows; to extend the run (of a show) / to include an additional element in a show
to take part in a performance; to appear in (a movie etc)
inversion (geometry)
(dialect) to perform; to act (in a play etc)
to ban (a play or movie)
joint military exercise
to recur (of events, esp. adverse ones) / to repeat (a performance)
(of a play, movie etc) to begin


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