Definition

Noun: - Tragicomedy: A literary, dramatic, or cinematic genre that blends elements of tragedy and comedy. It often presents serious or sorrowful situations with humorous or ironic undertones, or concludes a potentially tragic plot with a happy or peaceful resolution.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • "Vở kịch đó là một tác phẩm bi hài kịch xuất sắc, khiến khán giả vừa cười vừa suy ngẫm." (That play is an excellent tragicomedy, making the audience both laugh and reflect.)
  • "Cuộc đời anh ấy giống như một vở bi hài kịch, đầy những nghịch cảnh và tiếng cười chua chát." (His life is like a tragicomedy, full of adversities and bitter laughter.)

Advanced Usage

• As a descriptive term: Can be used metaphorically to describe real-life situations that contain a mixture of sad and funny, serious and absurd elements.
  • "Tình huống lúc ấy thực sự là một cảnh bi hài kịch." (That situation was truly a tragicomic scene.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bi hài (adj/n): Tragicomic. Often used as a shorter, more colloquial adjective or noun to describe something with mixed tragic and comic qualities.
  • "Kết thúc bi hài của câu chuyện khiến mọi người bàng hoàng." (The tragicomic ending of the story left everyone stunned.)

Synonyms

• Kịch vừa bi vừa hài: A descriptive phrase meaning "a play that is both tragic and comic." This is a more explanatory synonym rather than a single lexical item.

Notes on Meaning

• This is a compound noun formed from "bi" (悲 - tragic/sad), "hài" (喜 - comic/funny), and "kịch" (劇 - drama/play). It is treated as a single, fixed lexical unit in modern Vietnamese to denote the specific genre of tragicomedy.

noun

1. Tragi-comedy