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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
large-scale Chinese opera / Beijing opera / major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc)
to play tricks on / to make fun of / to tease
sex scene (in a movie etc)
stage
Huangmei opera (local opera of Anhui)
to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities
to watch a play / to watch passively (i.e. from the sidelines, from the crowd)
to act in a play / to put on a play
magic trick
to amuse oneself / to play with / to tease
opera (or role) involving much singing and action / (fig.) highlight / main feature / major activity
acrobatics; jugglery / trick; ploy
to frolic; to romp
item (on a program)
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
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
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
type of opera from Taiwan and Fujian
to start an opera
Beijing opera / CL: 齣|出
theatrical performance (e.g. on religious festival)
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
(neologism c. 2017) melodramatic person / drama queen
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)
fun and mockery
acrobatics / entertainment at folk festival
to play a game
lit. mandarin ducks playing in the water / fig. to make love
Anhui local opera
gamepad
opera form popular along Changjiang
(dialect) veteran actor / old trouper
(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
dramatist / playwright
psychological drama
Shanghai Theatrical Institute
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)
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)
monodrama / one-man show / comic talk
shadow play
opera for popular in Sichuan and Yunnan
to perform magic / to do magic tricks / prestidigitation
video game console
Yu-Gi-Oh!
three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
to act in a play / (of an amateur) to play a part in a professional performance
puppet show
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
crossword
last item on a show / grand finale

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