劇
げき · geki · JLPT N3 · noun
play
🎭 劇 = 豦 tiger-boar brawl + 刂 blade: a fierce fight, staged as drama
劇 first meant intense or violent, a sense that survives in 劇しい (はげしい, fierce). Stage drama is fierce conflict performed for an audience. For the sound, geki is the start of 劇場 (gekijō), theatre.