Chinese symbol for “skit”
短剧
duǎn jù
Traditional: 短劇
short play; sketch; skit; (neologism, attested by 2020) short-form video drama (esp. episodic videos made for mobile platforms, typically less than 5 minutes per episode)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for skit is 短剧 (duǎn jù), defined as: short play; sketch; skit; (neologism, attested by 2020) short-form video drama (esp. episodic videos made for mobile platforms, typically less than 5 minutes per episode).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “skit”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 短剧.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 短期 | duǎn qī | short-term |
| 短片 | duǎn piàn | short film; video clip |
| 短暂 (短暫) | duǎn zàn | of short duration; brief; momentary |
| 缩短 (縮短) | suō duǎn | to shorten; to reduce; to curtail |
| 短缺 | duǎn quē | shortage |
| 短信 | duǎn xìn | text message; SMS |
| 电视剧 (電視劇) | diàn shì jù | TV series; TV drama |
| 戏剧 (戲劇) | xì jù | a drama; a play; theater; script of a play |
See also: Japanese symbol for “skit”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.