戲 (xì)

drama; play; show

How 戲 is written

Strokes
17
Radical
虍 — tiger stripes
Traditional
戲
Simplified
戏

Components

Common words using 戲

遊戲 yóuxì
game; CL:場|场[chang3]; to play
戲劇 xìjù
drama; play; theater
拍戲 pāixì
to shoot a movie
演戲 yǎnxì
to put on a play; to perform; fig. to pretend
調戲 tiáoxì
to take liberties with a woman; to dally; to assail a woman with obscenities
馬戲團 mǎxìtuán
circus
京戲 jīngxì
Beijing Opera; CL:出[chu1]
做戲 zuòxì
to act in a play; to put on a play
傀儡戲 kuǐlěixì
puppet show
前戲 qiánxì
foreplay
唱戲 chàngxì
to perform in opera
壓軸戲 yāzhòuxì
next-to-last item on a program (theater); climax

戲 in a sentence

他很會演戲,演什麼像什麼。

Tā hěn huì yǎnxì, yǎn shénme xiàng shénme.

“He is very good at acting; he's convincing in whatever role he plays.”

How common is 戲?

戲 is the 1,031st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.7% of all running text.

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