"comedy" Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
喜剧喜劇	xǐ jù	a comedy / CL:部[bu4],齣\|出[chu1]
搞笑片	gǎo xiào piàn	comedy film / comedy / CL:部[bu4]
笑剧笑劇	xiào jù	comedy / farce	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
神曲	shén qǔ	The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁
滑稽	huá jī	comical / funny / amusing (old pr. [gu3 ji1]) / huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang	syn
但丁	dàn dīng	Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
脱口秀脫口秀	tuō kǒu xiù	(loanword) talk show / stand-up comedy
爱情喜剧愛情喜劇	ài qíng xǐ jù	romantic comedy
元曲	yuán qǔ	Yuan dynasty theater, including poetry, music and comedy
杂剧雜劇	zá jù	a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy
同乐会同樂會	tóng lè huì	social gathering at which those attending take it in turns to perform for the whole group (music, dancing or comedy etc)
关汉卿關漢卿	guān hàn qīng	Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇\|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
莫里哀	mò lǐ āi	Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor, master of comedy
马致远馬緻遠	mǎ zhì yuǎn	Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-1321), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇\|杂剧[za2 ju4] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan Dramatists 元曲四大家[Yuan2 qu3 Si4 Da4 jia1]
逢场作戏逢場作戲	féng chǎng zuò xì	lit. find a stage, put on a comedy (idiom) / to join in the fun / to play along according to local conditions	syn
小强小強	xiǎo qiáng	(slang) cockroach ("Little Qiang" was originally the name given to a dead cockroach that had supposedly been a pet of the lead character in the 1993 Hong Kong comedy movie "Flirting Scholar". Subsequently, it came to be used as a name for any cockroach, and also for characters in film and television who are seemingly indestructible or repeatedly resurrected.)
仲夏夜之梦仲夏夜之夢	zhòng xià yè zhī mèng	Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞\|莎士比亚[Sha1 shi4 bi3 ya4]
白朴白樸	bái pǔ	Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇\|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
郑光祖鄭光祖	zhèng guāng zǔ	Zheng Guangzu, Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇\|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
吐槽大会吐槽大會	tù cáo dà huì	Roast! (PRC comedy series)
步子太大，容易扯着蛋步子太大，容易扯著蛋	bù zi tài dà , róng yì chě zhe dàn	if you take too big a stride, you could easily rip your balls (catchphrase) (line spoken by actor 葛優\|葛优[Ge3 You1] in the 2010 action comedy movie 讓子彈飛\|让子弹飞[Rang4 Zi3 dan4 Fei1]) / (fig.) take things one step at a time

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