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悲剧

bēi jù

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 悲劇 Measure word 出

悲剧 (bēi jù) means "tragedy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 悲剧 means

1. tragedy

The characters in 悲剧

• 悲bēisad; sadness; sorrow
• 剧jùtheatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute

Example sentences

• 这将是一个可怕的悲剧。
  Zhè jiāng shì yī gè kěpà de bēijù.
  This would be a terrible tragedy.
• 所有悲剧都由死亡终结。
  Suǒyǒu bēijù dōu yóu sǐwáng zhōngjié.
  All tragedies end with a death.
• 我喜欢以悲剧收场的故事。
  Wǒ xǐhuan yǐ bēijù shōuchǎng de gùshi.
  I like stories that have sad endings.
• 莎士比亚的麦克白是一部悲剧。
  Shāshìbǐyà de Màikèbái shì yī bù bēijù.
  Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is a tragedy.
• 听到这件悲剧，他俩尽皆哭泣。
  They both cried after hearing the tragic news.

Words starting with 悲剧

• 悲剧性bēi jù xìngtragic
• 悲剧缺陷bēi jù quē xiàntragic flaw (Aristotle's hamartia)

Words containing 悲剧

• 公地悲剧gōng dì bēi jùtragedy of the commons (economics)

Sounds the same

Read bēi jù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 杯具cup; (slang) (pun on 悲剧; terrible

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