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剧

jù

severe, dramatic, theatrical play

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 居 represents the sound. Simplified form of 劇.

Components
居 sound component

居  Sound component

jū, jī

  

live

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

剧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剧 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
剧 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

剧 (劇) 

jù

theatrical plays, opera, drama; theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe

Most common words with 剧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

剧

acute

剧本

screenplay

悲剧

tragedy

电视剧

TV play

喜剧

comedy

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 43.5047% of movies

718th most common character in movies

909th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

劇

Unicode

U+5267


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