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戏剧

xì jù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 戲劇

戏剧 (xì jù) means "drama; a play; theater". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 戏剧 means

1. a drama; a play; theater
2. script of a play

The characters in 戏剧

• 戏xìtrick; drama; play
• 剧jùtheatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute

Example sentences

• 我叁加戏剧社。
  I belong to the drama club.
• 他在大学主修戏剧。
  He majored in drama at college.
• 我正在学习英文戏剧。
  Wǒ zhèngzài xuéxí Yīngwén xìjù.
  I'm studying English drama.
• 他们把这本小说变成戏剧。
  Tāmen bǎ zhè běn xiǎoshuō biànchéng xìjù.
  They made the novel into a drama.
• 你喜欢戏剧, 电影等等吗?
  Do you enjoy plays, films and such?
• 汤姆和玛丽的故事富有戏剧性。
  Tom and Mary's story is very theatrical.

Words starting with 戏剧

• 戏剧性xì jù xìngdramatic
• 戏剧化xì jù huàtheatrical
• 戏剧家xì jù jiādramatist; playwright
• 戏剧化人格违常xì jù huà rén gé wéi chánghistrionic personality disorder (HPD)

Words containing 戏剧

• 中央戏剧学院Zhōng yāng Xì jù Xué yuànCentral Academy of Drama
• 上海戏剧学院Shàng hǎi Xì jù Xué yuànShanghai Theatre Academy

Where 戏剧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Photography, Arts & Cultural Works (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xì jù correctly.
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