Be There or Be Square

Be There or Be Square 1998

不见不散 bùjiànbùsàn

The story of two Chinese immigrants' struggles in America. Yuan Liu has lived in LA for years. He has no stable job, no family and lives in a wagon. He seems content with his life until the day he meets Qing Li, a woman with the big "American dream".

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4.05 Intermediate Director Feng Xiaogang IMDb 7.2

Cast

Ge You Ge You Liu Yuan Xu Fan Xu Fan Li Qing Bobby C. King Bobby C. King Masked robber Feng Xiaogang Feng Xiaogang Cameo

Vocabulary

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哥哥 哥哥 gē ge older brother HSK 1
小姐 小姐 xiǎo jie young lady; miss; (slang) prostitute HSK 1
有时 有時 yǒu shí sometimes; now and then HSK 1
一半 一半 yī bàn half HSK 1
饭 飯 fàn cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee HSK 1
课 課 kè subject; course; class; lesson; to levy; tax; form of divination HSK 1
饿 餓 è to be hungry; hungry; to starve (sb) HSK 1
衣服 衣服 yī fu clothes HSK 1
七 七 qī seven; 7 HSK 1
动作 動作 dòng zuò movement; motion; action; to act; to move HSK 1
吃饭 吃飯 chī fàn to have a meal; to eat; to make a living HSK 1
八 八 bā eight; 8 HSK 1
洗 洗 xǐ to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording) HSK 1
一边 一邊 yī biān one side; either side; on the one hand; on the other hand; doing while HSK 1
坏 壞 huài bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost HSK 1
班 班 bān team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles HSK 1
打电话 打電話 dǎ diàn huà to make a telephone call HSK 1
累 累 lěi to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lèi]); continuous; repeated HSK 1
回去 回去 huí qu to return; to go back HSK 1
飞机 飛機 fēi jī airplane HSK 1
房子 房子 fáng zi house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room HSK 1
认真 認真 rèn zhēn conscientious; earnest; serious; to take seriously; to take to heart HSK 1
忘 忘 wàng to forget; to overlook; to neglect HSK 1
不用 不用 bù yòng need not HSK 1
教 教 jiào religion; teaching; to make; to cause; to tell HSK 1
第 第 dì (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 六 "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just HSK 1
回到 回到 huí dào to return to HSK 1
床 床 chuáng bed; couch; classifier for beds HSK 1
电脑 電腦 diàn nǎo computer HSK 1
睡觉 睡覺 shuì jiào to go to bed; to sleep HSK 1
白 白 bái white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera HSK 1
高兴 高興 gāo xìng happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood HSK 1
字 字 zì letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China HSK 1
说话 說話 shuō huà to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word HSK 1
听到 聽到 tīng dào to hear HSK 1
看见 看見 kàn jiàn to see; to catch sight of HSK 1
十 十 shí ten; 10 HSK 1
忙 忙 máng busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush HSK 1
马上 馬上 mǎ shàng at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force) HSK 1
她们 她們 tā men they; them (for females) HSK 1
名字 名字 míng zi name (of a person or thing) HSK 1
唱 唱 chàng to sing; to call loudly; to chant HSK 1
老师 老師 lǎo shī teacher HSK 1
学习 學習 xué xí to learn; to study HSK 1
出去 出去 chū qù to go out HSK 1
电视 電視 diàn shì television; TV HSK 1
楼 樓 lóu house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor HSK 1
元 元 yuán currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); first; original; primary; fundamental; constituent; part; era (of a reign); meta- (prefix); (math.) argument; variable; (Tw) (geology) eon HSK 1
中国 中國 Zhōng guó China HSK 1
半 半 bàn half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half HSK 1