Theater in Chinese
theater · HSK 4
剧院
- 剧 drama
- 院 courtyard
Counted with 家: 一家剧院
我们晚上去剧院看话剧。 We're going to the theater tonight to see a play.
Other ways to say theater
More words with 剧 or 院
How do you say theater in Chinese?
Theater in Chinese is 剧院 (jù yuàn). You can also say 剧场 (jù chǎng), 戏剧 (xì jù).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.