"idol drama" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
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
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
偶像 ǒu xiàng idol
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)
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
反派 fǎn pài villain (of a drama etc) syn
片酬 piàn chóu remuneration for playing a role in a movie or television drama
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
广播剧 廣播劇 guǎng bō jù radio drama
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
开光 開光 kāi guāng eye-opening ceremony for a religious idol (Buddhism) / to consecrate / to bless / transparent / translucent / haircut / shaving the head or face (humorous) / a method of decoration / first light (astronomy)
古装剧 古裝劇 gǔ zhuāng jù costume drama
中央戏剧学院 中央戲劇學院 zhōng yāng xì jù xué yuàn Central Academy of 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) 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
荡气回肠 蕩氣回腸 dàng qì huí cháng heart-rending (drama, music, poem etc) / deeply moving syn
偶人 ǒu rén idol (i.e. statue for worship) syn
郭敬明 guō jìng míng Guo Jingming (1983-), Chinese young-adult fiction writer and teen pop idol
美国偶像 美國偶像 měi guó ǒu xiàng American Idol, US singing competition television show
邓丽君 鄧麗君 dèng lì jūn Teresa Teng (1953-1995), Taiwanese pop idol
泥胎 ní tāi clay idol syn
小鲜肉 小鮮肉 xiǎo xiān ròu (coll.) teen idol (male)
爱豆 愛豆 ài dòu (loanword) (coll.) idol
偶像包袱 ǒu xiàng bāo fu burden of having to maintain one's image as a pop idol
应援 應援 yìng yuán (originally) to provide assistance / (more recently) to show one's support (for a singing idol etc)
唯粉 wéi fěn fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band
唯饭 唯飯 wéi fàn fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band
毒唯 dú wéi fan of one particular member of a pop idol band who denigrates and defames the other members
正主 zhèng zhǔ central figure / rightful owner / (slang) idol of a fan
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
戏说剧 戲說劇 xì shuō jù period costume drama (on TV)
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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