Illustration: In a small community theater, two actors rehearse a domestic confrontation around a low table. One holds a closed rehearsal booklet against his chest while delivering an extravagant pleading gesture; the other checks her open booklet with its pages turned away from view.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

戯ぎ曲きょく

gikyoku

play, drama

Example sentences

彼かれはいくつかの戯曲ぎきょくを韻文いんぶんで書かいた。
He wrote several plays in verse.
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「ハムレット」はこれまでで最もっともおもしろい戯曲ぎきょくだと言いわれている。
It is said that "Hamlet" is the most interesting play ever written.
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彼かれはその戯曲ぎきょくにすばらしい序文じょぶんを書かいた。
He wrote a fine preface to the play.
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Kanji in 戯曲

戯frolic; playOnギ・ゲKunたわむれる・ざれる・じゃれる
曲bend; musicOnキョクKunまがる・まげる・くま

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