Tragedy in Chinese
tragedy · HSK 6
悲剧
- 悲 sad
- 剧 drama
Counted with 出: 一出悲剧
这部电影是一个悲剧，看完我哭了。 This film is a tragedy; I cried after watching it.
More words with 悲 or 剧
How do you say tragedy in Chinese?
Tragedy in Chinese is 悲剧 (bēi 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?
Our own 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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