"costume drama" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
古装剧 古裝劇 gǔ zhuāng jù costume drama
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
服装 服裝 fú zhuāng dress / clothing / costume / clothes / CL:身[shen1] syn
戏剧 戲劇 xì jù a drama / a play / theater / script of a play syn
电视剧 電視劇 diàn shì jù TV series / TV drama / CL:部[bu4]
剧情 劇情 jù qíng story line / plot / drama (genre)
行头 行頭 xíng tou a person's clothing / outfit / actor's costume syn
改装 改裝 gǎi zhuāng to change one's costume / to repackage / to remodel / to refit / to modify / to convert
话剧 話劇 huà jù stage play / modern drama / CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4] syn
连续剧 連續劇 lián xù jù serialized drama / dramatic series / show in parts
游泳衣 yóu yǒng yī swimsuit / bathing costume
反派 fǎn pài villain (of a drama etc) syn
清唱 qīng chàng to sing opera arias without staging, costume or makeup / to sing a cappella
片酬 piàn chóu remuneration for playing a role in a movie or television drama
扮相 bàn xiàng stage costume syn
龙套 龍套 lóng tào costume of minor characters in opera, featuring dragon designs / walk-on syn
楔子 xiē zi wedge / peg / stopper / prologue (in some modern novels) / prologue or interlude in Yuan dynasty drama syn
舞剧 舞劇 wǔ jù dance drama / ballet syn
历史剧 歷史劇 lì shǐ jù historical drama
古装 古裝 gǔ zhuāng ancient costume / period costume (in movies etc)
广播剧 廣播劇 guǎng bō jù radio drama
卸装 卸裝 xiè zhuāng (of an actor) to remove makeup and costume / (computing) to uninstall / to unmount syn
剧集 劇集 jù jí (serialized TV or Internet drama) show / series
艺术学院 藝術學院 yì shù xué yuàn art institute / art and drama college
偶像剧 偶像劇 ǒu xiàng jù idol drama / drama series in which the actors are chosen for their preexisting popularity with young viewers
中央戏剧学院 中央戲劇學院 zhōng yāng xì jù xué yuàn Central Academy of Drama
水袖 shuǐ xiù flowing sleeves (part of theatrical costume)
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) syn
zhuāng adornment / to adorn / dress / clothing / costume (of an actor in a play) / to play a role / to pretend / to install / to fix / to wrap (sth in a bag) / to load / to pack syn
zhuī to chase / to pursue / to look into / to investigate / to reminisce / to recall / to court (one's beloved) / to binge-watch (a TV drama) / retroactively / posthumously syn
trick / drama / play / show / CL:齣|出[chu1],場|场[chang3],臺|台[tai2] syn
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) syn
回肠荡气 回腸盪氣 huí cháng dàng qì soul-stirring (of drama, poem or artwork) / heart-rending / deeply moving syn
窦娥冤 竇娥冤 dòu é yuān The Injustice to Dou E (popular drama by 關漢卿|关汉卿[Guan1 Han4 qing1])
丑剧 醜劇 chǒu jù absurd drama / farce / disgraceful show
手影 shǒu yǐng hand shadow drama
下装 下裝 xià zhuāng to take off costume and makeup / bottom garment (trousers etc) syn
荡气回肠 蕩氣回腸 dàng qì huí cháng heart-rending (drama, music, poem etc) / deeply moving syn
戏说剧 戲說劇 xì shuō jù period costume drama (on TV)
品服 pǐn fú costume / ceremonial dress (determining the grade of an official)
造型服装 造型服裝 zào xíng fú zhuāng costume
道具服 dào jù fú costume
布偶装 布偶裝 bù ǒu zhuāng mascot costume
变装 變裝 biàn zhuāng to change clothes / to dress up / to put on a costume / to cosplay / to cross-dress
大长今 大長今 dà cháng jīn Dae Jang Geum, a 2003 Korean historical drama TV series
三个女人一台戏 三個女人一臺戲 sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
博客话剧 博客話劇 bó kè huà jù blog drama (netspeak)
多幕剧 多幕劇 duō mù jù play in several acts / full-length drama
曾孝谷 zēng xiào gǔ Zeng Xiaogu (1873-1937), actor and pioneer of Chinese drama in New Culture style
满城尽带黄金甲 滿城盡帶黃金甲 mǎn chéng jìn dài huáng jīn jiǎ Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou
玩偶之家 wán ǒu zhī jiā Doll's House (1879), drama by Ibsen 易卜生
时装剧 時裝劇 shí zhuāng jù contemporary drama
双峰镇 雙峰镇 shuāng fēng zhèn Twin Peaks, US television drama series 1990-1991
内心戏 內心戲 nèi xīn xì psychological drama
入戏 入戲 rù xì (of an actor) to inhabit one's role / to become the character / (of an audience) to get involved in the drama
戏精 戲精 xì jīng (neologism c. 2017) melodramatic person / drama queen
八点档 八點檔 bā diǎn dàng 8:00 p.m. time slot (on television) / (Tw) (coll.) television drama series that airs in the prime time slot of 8:00 p.m.
抓马 抓馬 zhuā mǎ (coll.) (loanword) drama / dramatic
打戏 打戲 dǎ xì (opera, drama, film) fight scene
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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