传奇，中国传统戏曲，明、清两代一种戏剧文学的体制。

「传奇」一词最早是指唐代文言小说「唐人传奇」，宋元时期，被指称诸宫调等说唱艺术以及南戏、杂剧。明代或以后，才专称为演唱南曲为主的长篇戏曲。传奇源自宋元南戏，因初期作品多演自唐传奇，故借以别于元代流行之杂剧。元、明以后传奇变为一种继承自元曲的戏曲，又称南曲。

Chuanqi (simplified Chinese:传奇; traditional Chinese:傳奇; pinyin:chuánqí) (transmission of the strange) was first a form of short story in the classical language which developed in the Tang dynasty, and then a form of Chinese opera in later times.