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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 劇, the traditional character: 剧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他是喜剧演员。
He's a comedian.
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你最喜欢什么电视剧？
Which of the TV programs do you like best?
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咖啡师们该创造一个情景喜剧。
Baristas need to make a sitcom.
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我了解的情况是看韩剧者基本上是一些无所事事的女人。
From what I understand, those who watch Korean soap operas basically are women with nothing to do.
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我们现在去哪里？去剧场还是电影院？
Where shall we go now? To the theatre or cinema?
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我喜欢歌剧。
I like opera.
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我碰到一个对能剧感兴趣的美国人。
I met an American who was interested in Noh plays.
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据说《哈姆雷特》是写出来的最有意思的剧本。
It is said that "Hamlet" is the most interesting play ever written.