A Maid from Heaven

A Maid from Heaven 1963

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Seventh sister of the celestial world goes down to earth to marry Dong Yong, a young man sold to servitude. However the Jade Emperor orders her to go back to the immortal world.

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Vocabulary

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zǒng general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc HSK 3
already; to stop; then; afterwards HSK 3
xīn heart; mind; intention; center; core HSK 3
zhǐ shì merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however HSK 3
wèi le for; for the purpose of; in order to HSK 3
zhǒng seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) HSK 3
to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) HSK 3
hǎi all parts of the country Idiom ∼HSK 2
qiān - tiáo tiáo (idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar Idiom ∼HSK 2
bái tóu dào lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss; until death do us part Idiom ∼HSK 2
qíng tiān lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom); fig. a bolt from the blue Idiom ∼HSK 2
zhèng hǎo just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that Xiehouyu HSK 2
Tiān Milky Way; Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
mài shēn to prostitute oneself; to sell oneself into slavery ∼HSK 2
shēn body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 ∼HSK 2
nián zhǎng senior ∼HSK 2
wéi (archaic) term used by a husband to refer to himself when speaking to his wife ∼HSK 2
wife ∼HSK 2
Fáng surname Fang ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
shéi zhī who would have thought; unexpectedly ∼HSK 2
dìng yào must ∼HSK 2
man, male adult, husband; those ∼HSK 2
fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
gāi should not; to owe nothing ∼HSK 2
to fish ∼HSK 2
qiáo woodman; woodcutter ∼HSK 2
fáng machine room; engine room; computer room ∼HSK 2
mèi fu younger sister's husband ∼HSK 2
sān gēng third of the five night watch periods 23:00-01:00 (old); midnight; also pr. [san1 jin1] ∼HSK 2
shēng xià to give birth to ∼HSK 2
bái tóu hoary head; old age ∼HSK 2
zhǐ one (measure word for animals, boats, certain objects); a single ... ∼HSK 2
zǎo zhī dao If I had known earlier... ∼HSK 2
shōu chéng harvest ∼HSK 2
yàng different; distinctive; unlike ∼HSK 2
hóng crimson ∼HSK 2
nián qīng rén young people; youngster ∼HSK 2
zhǎng de to look (pretty, the same etc) ∼HSK 2
zhù help, aid, assist ∼HSK 2
wàn zhàng lit. ten thousand fathoms; fig. extremely high or deep; lofty; bottomless ∼HSK 2
wǎng qián (in) the past; ahead; forward; in the future ∼HSK 2
dào xiàng (optics) inverted image ∼HSK 2
hóng sun ∼HSK 2
cǔn to ponder; to reckon; to turn sth over in one's mind ∼HSK 2
xìn kǒu to blurt sth out; to open one's mouth without thinking ∼HSK 2