Ash Is Purest White

Ash Is Purest White 2018

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Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.

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3.87 Beginner Director Jia Zhangke 🍅 99%

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Vocabulary

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怀 Huái bosom, breast; carry in bosom ∼HSK 4
bào àn to report a case to the authorities ∼HSK 4
Guō outer part (of a city); surname ∼HSK 4
zǎi henchman; gang member ∼HSK 4
zán liǎ the two of us ∼HSK 4
huà juàn picture scroll ∼HSK 4
chú zi cook ∼HSK 4
xià chú to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal); to cook ∼HSK 4
zhuān chē special (or reserved) train (or bus etc); limousine; private car used as a taxi and booked via a smartphone app ∼HSK 4
wèi shá dialectal equivalent of ∼HSK 4
Cháng Jiāng Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang HSK 4
néng gàn capable; competent HSK 4
lún wheelchair HSK 4
jiǎng jiu to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality; tastefully chosen HSK 4
arrogant idler; self-centered show-off HSK 4
shí táng dining hall; cafeteria HSK 4
guāng lín (formal) to honor with one's presence; to attend HSK 4
xīn láng bridegroom; groom HSK 4
dìng to place an order; to book ahead HSK 4
interest (on a loan) HSK 4
shùn sequence; order HSK 4
yān to smoke HSK 4
zǒng premier; prime minister HSK 4
lǎo tiger HSK 4
chōu yān to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco) HSK 4
zhāo hu to call out to; to greet; to say hello to; to inform; to take care of; to take care that one does not HSK 4
bàn shì to handle (affairs); to work HSK 4
rán shāo to ignite; to combust; to burn; combustion; flaming HSK 4
xīn niáng bride HSK 4
jiàn jiàn gradually HSK 4
xiǎo huǒ zi young man; young guy; lad; youngster HSK 4
liè chē (railway) train HSK 4
duō nián many years; for many years; longstanding HSK 4
zhuāng xiū to decorate; interior decoration; to fit up; to renovate HSK 4
mín to immigrate; to migrate; emigrant; immigrant HSK 4
jiǎn féi to lose weight HSK 4
eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss HSK 4
guò fèn excessive; undue; overly HSK 4
zhàn shèng to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount HSK 4
dān to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden HSK 4
xiàn county HSK 4
to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of HSK 4
suān sour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid HSK 4
zǒng zhī in a word; in short; in brief HSK 4
hēi àn dark; darkly; darkness HSK 4
sēn lín forest HSK 4
dìng to fix; to fasten; to set rigidly in place; fixed; set; regular HSK 4
yǒng courage; valor HSK 4
to meet; to encounter; to treat; to receive; opportunity; chance HSK 4
dēng to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) HSK 4