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Re: 搜 尋 戲

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搜尋 (search) 戲 (play / drama )

Either the editor of that page only have limited knowledge of Chinese or it a typo  which a character is missing.

"Movies" in Chinese is 「電影」 in  Cantonese, we can say 「睇戲」 instead of 「睇電影」, or say 「一套戲 」instead of 「一套電影」but we don't use a single character 戲 on its own as a noun for "movies" 

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搜尋 (search) 戲劇 (movies and drama )
搜尋 (search) 新戲 (new movies )
搜尋 (search) 熱門戲 (popular movies )

**睇戲 is a contraction of 睇大戲 ( watch Chinese Opera) or 睇影畫戲 (archaic name for " modern films" in the early days)

We can say a movie 係一齣好戲 ( is a good drama) even though 好戲 originally meant " good drama / play" we are used to use it for  "movie" in  any genre.

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