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劇 kanji
drama, play
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ゲキ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 劇
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3劇Populardrama; play; powerful drug
- N3劇場Populartheatre; theater; playhouse
- N3悲劇Populartragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster
- N2演劇Populardrama; theatre; theater; play
- N1喜劇Popularcomedy
- N1劇団Populartroupe; theatrical company
- —歌劇Popularopera
- —観劇Populartheatre-going; theater-going
- —劇作Popularplaywriting
- —劇的Populardramatic; exciting; touching; extreme
- —劇薬Popularpowerful medicine; strong poison
- —剣劇Popularsword play; samurai drama
- —劇画Populargekiga; manga with a realistic, dramatic art style and mature themes; kamishibai; storytelling with pictures
- —新劇Popularshingeki; new drama (movement); form of Japanese theater developed towards the end of the Meiji period inspired by modern Western theater
- —時代劇Popularhistorical play; period drama
- —国立劇場Popularnational theater
- —楽劇musical play; opera
- —活劇action film; action movie; action drama; riotous scene; fight scene
- —旧劇traditional Japanese theater (kabuki, noh, etc.); classical drama; play of the old school; period drama (film)
- —劇化dramatization; dramatisation