Chinese Zodiac

Chinese Zodiac 2012

shí'èr shēngxiào

Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the twelve Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student and a Parisian woman, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.

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4.45 Intermediate Director Jackie Chan 🍅 25%

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Vocabulary

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xiǎng unexpectedly; to one's surprise ∼HSK 1
the first time; first; number one ∼HSK 1
èr shí twenty; 20 ∼HSK 1
mǎi huí to buy back; to redeem; repurchase ∼HSK 1
rén son, child; KangXi radical 10 ∼HSK 1
duì le Correct!; Oh, that's right,... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention); Oh, by the way,... ∼HSK 1
zhè wèi this (person) ∼HSK 1
zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
bǎi nián hundred years; century; lifetime ∼HSK 1
xīng a star, planet; any point of light ∼HSK 1
zhǎo bu dào can't find ∼HSK 1
zhǎo huí to retrieve ∼HSK 1
shàng tiān Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards; (euphemism) to die; to pass away; the previous day (or days) ∼HSK 1
le no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
kàn bu jiàn cannot see; cannot be seen; invisible ∼HSK 1
shuō shuo to say sth ∼HSK 1
nín hǎo hello (polite) ∼HSK 1
huán gěi to return sth to sb ∼HSK 1
yào yǒu to need; to require; must have ∼HSK 1
tiān several days ∼HSK 1
měi tiān every day ∼HSK 1
jiàn le to have disappeared; to be missing; nowhere to be found ∼HSK 1
shì de yes, that's right; variant of ∼HSK 1
hái girl; lass ∼HSK 1
zài together ∼HSK 1
zài wài outer; excluded ∼HSK 1
jiā de (old) wife ∼HSK 1
zhòng to hit the target; (fig.) to hit the nail on the head ∼HSK 1
máng there's no hurry; take one's time ∼HSK 1
dào xiàn zài up until now; to date ∼HSK 1
zhèng midday; noon; noonday ∼HSK 1
jiào cellar; basement ∼HSK 1
shí eighty; 80 ∼HSK 1
西 西 cider (loanword) ∼HSK 1
several times ∼HSK 1
mǎi jìn to purchase; to buy in (goods) ∼HSK 1
fifth ∼HSK 1
mǎi jiā buyer; purchaser ∼HSK 1
shì ma isn't that so? ∼HSK 1
zěn me huí shì what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? ∼HSK 1
hǎo nián several years ∼HSK 1
děng (archaic) you all ∼HSK 1
nán yǒu boyfriend ∼HSK 1
yǒu girlfriend ∼HSK 1
nián a few years; several years; how many years? ∼HSK 1
méi diàn discharged; flat; dead (of batteries) ∼HSK 1
zǒu chū to leave (a room etc); to go out through (a door etc) ∼HSK 1
guò duō too many; excessive ∼HSK 1
huí diàn to call sb back (on the phone); a return call; to reply to a telegram; to wire back; a reply telegram ∼HSK 1