| 剧 | [ jù ] theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc), dramatic (change, increase etc), acute, severe |
| 剧作家 | [ jù zuò jiā ] playwright |
| 剧团 | [ jù tuán ] theatrical troupe |
| 剧场 | [ jù chǎng ] theater, CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 剧增 | [ jù zēng ] dramatic increase |
| 剧坛 | [ jù tán ] the world of Chinese opera, theatrical circles |
| 剧情 | [ jù qíng ] story line, plot, drama (genre) |
| 剧本 | [ jù běn ] script for play, opera, movie etc, screenplay, scenario |
| 剧毒 | [ jù dú ] highly toxic, extremely poisonous |
| 剧烈 | [ jù liè ] violent, acute, severe, fierce |
| 剧照 | [ jù zhaò ] photo taken during a theatrical production, a still (from a movie) |
| 剧痛 | [ jù tòng ] acute pain, sharp pain, twinge, stab, pang |
| 剧目 | [ jù mù ] theatrical piece (play or opera), repertoire, list of plays or operas |
| 剧社 | [ jù shè ] theater company |
| 剧终 | [ jù zhōng ] The End (appearing at the end of a movie etc) |
| 剧组 | [ jù zǔ ] cast and crew, performers and production team |
| 剧荒 | [ jù huāng ] (neologism c. 2016) no tv shows to watch |
| 剧变 | [ jù biàn ] to change dramatically, radical change |
| 剧透 | [ jù toù ] plot leak, spoiler |
| 剧院 | [ jù yuàn ] theater, CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4] |
| ⇒ IP剧 | [ jù ] screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc) |
| ⇒ 上星剧 | [ shàng xīng jù ] satellite television show |
| ⇒ 上海大剧院 | [ shàng haǐ dà jù yuàn ] Shanghai Grand Theater |
| ⇒ 上海戏剧学院 | [ shàng haǐ xì jù xué yuàn ] Shanghai Theatrical Institute |
| ⇒ 中央戏剧学院 | [ zhōng yāng xì jù xué yuàn ] Central Academy of Drama |
| ⇒ 京剧 | [ jīng jù ] Beijing opera, CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1] |
| ⇒ 人间喜剧 | [ rén jiān xǐ jù ] La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克[Ba1 er3 zha1 ke4] |
| ⇒ 侗剧 | [ dòng jù ] Dong opera |
| ⇒ 保留剧目 | [ baǒ liú jù mù ] repertory, repertoire, repertory item |
| ⇒ 偶像剧 | [ oǔ xiàng jù ] idol drama, drama series in which the actors are chosen for their preexisting popularity with young viewers |
| ⇒ 公地悲剧 | [ gōng dì beī jù ] tragedy of the commons (economics) |
| ⇒ 刷剧 | [ shuā jù ] to binge-watch (TV) |
| ⇒ 加剧 | [ jiā jù ] to intensify, to sharpen, to accelerate, to aggravate, to exacerbate, to embitter |
| ⇒ 博客话剧 | [ bó kè huà jù ] blog drama (netspeak) |
| ⇒ 古装剧 | [ gǔ zhuāng jù ] costume drama |
| ⇒ 哑剧 | [ yǎ jù ] to mime, a dumb show |
| ⇒ 喜剧 | [ xǐ jù ] comedy, CL:部[bu4],齣|出[chu1] |
| ⇒ 喜歌剧院 | [ xǐ gē jù yuàn ] musical theater, Opéra Comique, Paris |
| ⇒ 圆形剧场 | [ yuán xíng jù chǎng ] amphitheater |
| ⇒ 多幕剧 | [ duō mù jù ] play in several acts, full-length drama |
| ⇒ 峒剧 | [ dòng jù ] variant of 侗劇|侗剧[Dong4 ju4] |
| ⇒ 昆剧 | [ kūn jù ] see 崑曲|昆曲[Kun1 qu3] |
| ⇒ 川剧 | [ chuān jù ] Sichuan opera |
| ⇒ 广播剧 | [ guǎng bō jù ] radio drama |
| ⇒ 彝剧 | [ yí jù ] Yi opera |
| ⇒ 影剧 | [ yǐng jù ] film and theater, screen and stage |
| ⇒ 影剧院 | [ yǐng jù yuàn ] cinema, movie theater |
| ⇒ 徽剧 | [ huī jù ] Anhui opera |
| ⇒ 急剧 | [ jí jù ] rapid, sudden |
| ⇒ 悲剧 | [ beī jù ] tragedy, CL:齣|出[chu1] |
| ⇒ 悲剧性 | [ beī jù xìng ] tragic |
| ⇒ 悲剧缺陷 | [ beī jù quē xiàn ] tragic flaw (Aristotle's hamartia) |
| ⇒ 悲喜剧 | [ beī xǐ jù ] tragicomedy |
| ⇒ 恶作剧 | [ è zuò jù ] practical joke, prank, to play a practical joke |
| ⇒ 爱情喜剧 | [ aì qíng xǐ jù ] romantic comedy |
| ⇒ 惨剧 | [ cǎn jù ] tragedy, calamity, atrocity |
| ⇒ 戏剧 | [ xì jù ] drama, play, theater |
| ⇒ 戏剧化 | [ xì jù huà ] theatrical |
| ⇒ 戏剧化人格违常 | [ xì jù huà rén gé weí cháng ] histrionic personality disorder (HPD) |
| ⇒ 戏剧家 | [ xì jù jiā ] dramatist, playwright |
| ⇒ 戏剧性 | [ xì jù xìng ] dramatic |
| ⇒ 戏说剧 | [ xì shuō jù ] period costume drama (on TV) |
| ⇒ 新剧同志会 | [ xīn jù tóng zhì huì ] New Play Comrade Society, Chinese theatrical company founded in 1912, a continuation of the Spring Willow Society 春柳社[Chun1 liu3 she4] |
| ⇒ 春柳剧场 | [ chūn liǔ jù chǎng ] Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[Xin1 Wen2 hua4 Yun4 dong4], continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會|新剧同志会[Xin1 ju4 Tong2 zhi4 hui4] |
| ⇒ 时装剧 | [ shí zhuāng jù ] contemporary drama |
| ⇒ 弃剧 | [ qì jù ] to quit watching a TV series |
| ⇒ 歌剧 | [ gē jù ] Western opera, CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1] |
| ⇒ 歌剧院 | [ gē jù yuàn ] opera house |
| ⇒ 歌剧院魅影 | [ gē jù yuàn meì yǐng ] The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| ⇒ 正剧 | [ zhèng jù ] bourgeois tragedy |
| ⇒ 历史剧 | [ lì shǐ jù ] historical drama |
| ⇒ 活报剧 | [ huó baò jù ] political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s) |
| ⇒ 湘剧 | [ xiāng jù ] Xiang opera (Hunan) |
| ⇒ 沪剧 | [ hù jù ] Shanghai opera |
| ⇒ 演剧 | [ yǎn jù ] to perform a play |
| ⇒ 秧歌剧 | [ yāng ge jù ] Yangge opera, a rural form of theater |
| ⇒ 穿越剧 | [ chuān yuè jù ] time travel series (on TV) |
| ⇒ 笑剧 | [ jù ] comedy, farce |
| ⇒ 粤剧 | [ yuè jù ] Cantonese opera |
| ⇒ 编剧 | [ biān jù ] to write a play, scenario, dramatist, screenwriter |
| ⇒ 美剧 | [ meǐ jù ] American TV series, abbr. for 美國電視劇|美国电视剧 |
| ⇒ 肥皂剧 | [ feí zaò jù ] soap opera (loanword) |
| ⇒ 舞剧 | [ wǔ jù ] dance drama, ballet |
| ⇒ 蒲剧 | [ pú jù ] Puzhou opera of Shanxi Province |
| ⇒ 芗剧 | [ xiāng jù ] variety of opera popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan |
| ⇒ 行动剧 | [ xíng dòng jù ] (Tw) street theater (esp. as a form of political expression) |
| ⇒ 话剧 | [ huà jù ] stage play, modern drama, CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4] |
| ⇒ 谐剧 | [ xié jù ] Xieju opera (ballad and dancing monologue, popular in Sichuan) |
| ⇒ 谑剧 | [ xuè jù ] fun and mockery |
| ⇒ 豫剧 | [ yù jù ] Henan opera |
| ⇒ 越剧 | [ yuè jù ] Shaoxing opera |
| ⇒ 趣剧 | [ qù jù ] farce |
| ⇒ 转剧 | [ zhuǎn jù ] becoming acute, to exacerbate |
| ⇒ 追剧 | [ zhuī jù ] to watch a TV series etc regularly, to binge-watch |
| ⇒ 连续剧 | [ lián xù jù ] serialized drama, dramatic series, show in parts |
| ⇒ 丑剧 | [ choǔ jù ] absurd drama, farce, disgraceful show |
| ⇒ 锡剧 | [ xī jù ] Wuxi 無錫|无锡 opera |
| ⇒ 杂剧 | [ zá jù ] a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy |
| ⇒ 杂剧四大家 | [ zá jù sì dà jiā ] Four Great Yuan Dramatists, namely: Guan Hanqing 關漢卿|关汉卿[Guan1 Han4 qing1], Zheng Guangzu 鄭光祖|郑光祖[Zheng4 Guang1 zu3], Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠|马致远[Ma3 Zhi4 yuan3] and Bai Pu 白樸|白朴[Bai2 Pu3] |
| ⇒ 电影剧本 | [ diàn yǐng jù běn ] screenplay |
| ⇒ 电视剧 | [ diàn shì jù ] TV series, TV drama, CL:部[bu4] |
| ⇒ 首都剧场 | [ shoǔ dū jù chǎng ] the Capital Theater (in Beijing) |
| ⇒ 闹剧 | [ naò jù ] farce, CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1],幕[mu4] |
| ⇒ 默剧 | [ mò jù ] pantomime, mime, dumb show |
