"Drama" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 xì jù drama / play / theater
 jù qíng story line / plot / drama (genre)
 xì trick / drama / play / show / CL:齣|出[chu1],場|场[chang3],臺|台[tai2]
 xì variant of 戲|戏[xi4] / play / drama
 diàn shì jù TV series / TV drama / CL:部[bu4]
 lián xù jù serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
 huà jù stage play / modern drama / CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4]
 yì shù xué yuàn art institute / art and drama college
 ǒu xiàng jù idol drama / drama series in which the actors are chosen for their preexisting popularity with young viewers
 xiē zi wedge / peg / stopper / prologue (in some modern novels) / prologue or interlude in Yuan dynasty drama
 piàn chóu remuneration for playing a role in a movie or television drama
 fǎn pài villain (of a drama etc)
 wǔ jù dance drama / ballet
广 guǎng bō jù radio drama
 lì shǐ jù historical drama
 gǔ zhuāng jù costume drama
 Zhōng yāng Xì jù Xué yuàn Central Academy of Drama
 Dòu E2 yuān The Injustice to Dou E (popular drama by 關漢卿|关汉卿[Guan1 Han4 qing1])
 huí cháng dàng qì soul-stirring (of drama, poem or artwork) / heart-rending / deeply moving
 chǒu jù absurd drama / farce / disgraceful show
 shǒu yǐng hand shadow drama
 kào to lean against or on / to stand by the side of / to come near to / to depend on / to trust / to fuck (vulgar) / traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
 gěng branch / stem / stalk / CL:根[gen1] / to block / to hinder / (neologism that evolved from 哏[gen2], initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc) / prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc)
 xì jīng (neologism c. 2017) melodramatic person / drama queen
 Dà cháng jīn Dae Jang Geum, a 2003 Korean historical drama TV series
 sān ge nu:3 rén yī tái xì three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
 bó kè huà jù blog drama (netspeak)
 duō mù jù play in several acts / full-length drama
 xì shuō jù period costume drama (on TV)
 Zēng Xiào gǔ Zeng Xiaogu (1873-1937), actor and pioneer of Chinese drama in New Culture style
 Mǎn chéng jìn dài huáng jīn jiǎ Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou
 Wán ǒu zhī jiā Doll's House (1879), drama by Ibsen 易卜生
 shí zhuāng jù contemporary drama
 Shuāng fēng Zhèn Twin Peaks, US television drama series 1990-1991
 nèi xīn xì psychological drama
 rù xì (of an actor) to inhabit one's role / to become the character / (of an audience) to get involved in the drama
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