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劇

jù

severe, dramatic, theatrical play

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 豦 represents the sound.

Components
豦 sound component

豦  Sound component

jù, qú

  

a wild boar

刂 meaning component

刂  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

Evolution

劇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
劇 Regular script Modern

Regular 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 劇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

剧

acute

剧本

screenplay

悲剧

tragedy

电视剧

TV play

喜剧

comedy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 43.5047% of movies

718th most common character in movies

909th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

剧

Unicode

U+5287

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“劇，尤甚也。从刀，未詳，豦聲。”


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