| 劇 | [ jù ] theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc), dramatic (change, increase etc), acute, severe |
| 劇作家 | [ jù zuò jiā ] playwright |
| 劇團 | [ jù tuán ] theatrical troupe |
| 劇場 | [ jù chǎng ] theater, CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 劇增 | [ jù zēng ] dramatic increase |
| 劇壇 | [ jù tán ] the world of Chinese opera, theatrical circles |
| 劇情 | [ jù qíng ] story line, plot, drama (genre) |
| 劇本 | [ jù běn ] script for play, opera, movie etc, screenplay, scenario |
| 劇毒 | [ jù dú ] highly toxic, extremely poisonous |
| 劇烈 | [ jù liè ] violent, acute, severe, fierce |
| 劇照 | [ jù zhaò ] photo taken during a theatrical production, a still (from a movie) |
| 劇痛 | [ jù tòng ] acute pain, sharp pain, twinge, stab, pang |
| 劇目 | [ jù mù ] theatrical piece (play or opera), repertoire, list of plays or operas |
| 劇社 | [ jù shè ] theater company |
| 劇終 | [ jù zhōng ] The End (appearing at the end of a movie etc) |
| 劇組 | [ jù zǔ ] cast and crew, performers and production team |
| 劇荒 | [ jù huāng ] (neologism c. 2016) no tv shows to watch |
| 劇變 | [ jù biàn ] to change dramatically, radical change |
| 劇透 | [ jù toù ] plot leak, spoiler |
| 劇院 | [ jù yuàn ] theater, CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4] |
| ⇒ IP劇 | [ jù ] screen adaptation (TV series or movie based on an online novel or video game etc) |
| ⇒ 上星劇 | [ shàng xīng jù ] satellite television show |
| ⇒ 上海大劇院 | [ shàng haǐ dà jù yuàn ] Shanghai Grand Theater |
| ⇒ 上海戲劇學院 | [ shàng haǐ xì jù xué yuàn ] Shanghai Theatrical Institute |
| ⇒ 中央戲劇學院 | [ zhōng yāng xì jù xué yuàn ] Central Academy of Drama |
| ⇒ 京劇 | [ jīng jù ] Beijing opera, CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1] |
| ⇒ 人間喜劇 | [ 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] |
| ⇒ 侗劇 | [ dòng jù ] Dong opera |
| ⇒ 保留劇目 | [ baǒ liú jù mù ] repertory, repertoire, repertory item |
| ⇒ 偶像劇 | [ oǔ xiàng jù ] idol drama, drama series in which the actors are chosen for their preexisting popularity with young viewers |
| ⇒ 公地悲劇 | [ gōng dì beī jù ] tragedy of the commons (economics) |
| ⇒ 刷劇 | [ shuā jù ] to binge-watch (TV) |
| ⇒ 加劇 | [ jiā jù ] to intensify, to sharpen, to accelerate, to aggravate, to exacerbate, to embitter |
| ⇒ 博客話劇 | [ bó kè huà jù ] blog drama (netspeak) |
| ⇒ 古裝劇 | [ gǔ zhuāng jù ] costume drama |
| ⇒ 啞劇 | [ yǎ jù ] to mime, a dumb show |
| ⇒ 喜劇 | [ xǐ jù ] comedy, CL:部[bu4],齣|出[chu1] |
| ⇒ 喜歌劇院 | [ xǐ gē jù yuàn ] musical theater, Opéra Comique, Paris |
| ⇒ 圓形劇場 | [ yuán xíng jù chǎng ] amphitheater |
| ⇒ 多幕劇 | [ duō mù jù ] play in several acts, full-length drama |
| ⇒ 峒劇 | [ dòng jù ] variant of 侗劇|侗剧[Dong4 ju4] |
| ⇒ 崑劇 | [ kūn jù ] see 崑曲|昆曲[Kun1 qu3] |
| ⇒ 川劇 | [ chuān jù ] Sichuan opera |
| ⇒ 廣播劇 | [ guǎng bō jù ] radio drama |
| ⇒ 彞劇 | [ yí jù ] Yi opera |
| ⇒ 影劇 | [ yǐng jù ] film and theater, screen and stage |
| ⇒ 影劇院 | [ yǐng jù yuàn ] cinema, movie theater |
| ⇒ 徽劇 | [ huī jù ] Anhui opera |
| ⇒ 急劇 | [ jí jù ] rapid, sudden |
| ⇒ 悲劇 | [ beī jù ] tragedy, CL:齣|出[chu1] |
| ⇒ 悲劇性 | [ beī jù xìng ] tragic |
| ⇒ 悲劇缺陷 | [ beī jù quē xiàn ] tragic flaw (Aristotle's hamartia) |
| ⇒ 悲喜劇 | [ beī xǐ jù ] tragicomedy |
| ⇒ 惡作劇 | [ è zuò jù ] practical joke, prank, to play a practical joke |
| ⇒ 愛情喜劇 | [ aì qíng xǐ jù ] romantic comedy |
| ⇒ 慘劇 | [ cǎn jù ] tragedy, calamity, atrocity |
| ⇒ 戲劇 | [ xì jù ] drama, play, theater |
| ⇒ 戲劇化 | [ xì jù huà ] theatrical |
| ⇒ 戲劇化人格違常 | [ xì jù huà rén gé weí cháng ] histrionic personality disorder (HPD) |
| ⇒ 戲劇家 | [ xì jù jiā ] dramatist, playwright |
| ⇒ 戲劇性 | [ xì jù xìng ] dramatic |
| ⇒ 戲說劇 | [ xì shuō jù ] period costume drama (on TV) |
| ⇒ 新劇同志會 | [ 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] |
| ⇒ 春柳劇場 | [ 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] |
| ⇒ 時裝劇 | [ shí zhuāng jù ] contemporary drama |
| ⇒ 棄劇 | [ qì jù ] to quit watching a TV series |
| ⇒ 歌劇 | [ gē jù ] Western opera, CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1] |
| ⇒ 歌劇院 | [ gē jù yuàn ] opera house |
| ⇒ 歌劇院魅影 | [ gē jù yuàn meì yǐng ] The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| ⇒ 正劇 | [ zhèng jù ] bourgeois tragedy |
| ⇒ 歷史劇 | [ lì shǐ jù ] historical drama |
| ⇒ 活報劇 | [ huó baò jù ] political street theater (loanword from Zhivaya Gazeta, or Living Newspaper, Russian theater form of the 1920s) |
| ⇒ 湘劇 | [ xiāng jù ] Xiang opera (Hunan) |
| ⇒ 滬劇 | [ hù jù ] Shanghai opera |
| ⇒ 演劇 | [ yǎn jù ] to perform a play |
| ⇒ 秧歌劇 | [ yāng ge jù ] Yangge opera, a rural form of theater |
| ⇒ 穿越劇 | [ chuān yuè jù ] time travel series (on TV) |
| ⇒ 笑劇 | [ jù ] comedy, farce |
| ⇒ 粵劇 | [ yuè jù ] Cantonese opera |
| ⇒ 編劇 | [ biān jù ] to write a play, scenario, dramatist, screenwriter |
| ⇒ 美劇 | [ meǐ jù ] American TV series, abbr. for 美國電視劇|美国电视剧 |
| ⇒ 肥皂劇 | [ feí zaò jù ] soap opera (loanword) |
| ⇒ 舞劇 | [ wǔ jù ] dance drama, ballet |
| ⇒ 蒲劇 | [ pú jù ] Puzhou opera of Shanxi Province |
| ⇒ 薌劇 | [ xiāng jù ] variety of opera popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan |
| ⇒ 行動劇 | [ xíng dòng jù ] (Tw) street theater (esp. as a form of political expression) |
| ⇒ 話劇 | [ huà jù ] stage play, modern drama, CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4] |
| ⇒ 諧劇 | [ xié jù ] Xieju opera (ballad and dancing monologue, popular in Sichuan) |
| ⇒ 謔劇 | [ xuè jù ] fun and mockery |
| ⇒ 豫劇 | [ yù jù ] Henan opera |
| ⇒ 越劇 | [ yuè jù ] Shaoxing opera |
| ⇒ 趣劇 | [ qù jù ] farce |
| ⇒ 轉劇 | [ zhuǎn jù ] becoming acute, to exacerbate |
| ⇒ 追劇 | [ zhuī jù ] to watch a TV series etc regularly, to binge-watch |
| ⇒ 連續劇 | [ lián xù jù ] serialized drama, dramatic series, show in parts |
| ⇒ 醜劇 | [ choǔ jù ] absurd drama, farce, disgraceful show |
| ⇒ 錫劇 | [ xī jù ] Wuxi 無錫|无锡 opera |
| ⇒ 雜劇 | [ zá jù ] a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy |
| ⇒ 雜劇四大家 | [ 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] |
| ⇒ 電影劇本 | [ diàn yǐng jù běn ] screenplay |
| ⇒ 電視劇 | [ diàn shì jù ] TV series, TV drama, CL:部[bu4] |
| ⇒ 首都劇場 | [ shoǔ dū jù chǎng ] the Capital Theater (in Beijing) |
| ⇒ 鬧劇 | [ naò jù ] farce, CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1],幕[mu4] |
| ⇒ 默劇 | [ mò jù ] pantomime, mime, dumb show |