Chungking Express

Chungking Express 1994

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Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

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3.45 Beginner Director Wong Kar-Wai 🍅 89%

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Vocabulary

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měi each; every HSK 3
zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes HSK 3
xīn heart; mind; intention; center; core HSK 3
to continue; to proceed with; to go on with HSK 3
sài competition (sports etc); match; to compete HSK 3
shì jiè world 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
wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
zhǒng seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts HSK 3
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs 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
jiǎ de bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
kāi xīn to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb Xiehouyu HSK 2
gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism HSK 2
tǐng straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns Colloquialism HSK 2
Wàn nián Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Kara, city in northern Togo; Cara, Karla etc (name) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
jiànguò seen HSK 2
tǐng hǎo very good HSK 2
shén me shí hou when?; at what time? ∼HSK 2
biǎo older male cousin via female line ∼HSK 2
return; repeat; repeatedly ∼HSK 2
gǎi tiān another day; some other time; to find another day (for appointment etc); to take a rain check ∼HSK 2
xiǎng tōng to figure out; to realize; to become convinced; to come round (to an idea); to get over it ∼HSK 2
měi every time ∼HSK 2
shuì de zháo to fall asleep; to get to sleep ∼HSK 2
dìng yào must ∼HSK 2
méi yǒu guān xi it doesn't matter ∼HSK 2
gǒu hot dog (loanword) ∼HSK 2
méi wèn no problem ∼HSK 2
bìng jià sick leave ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
xiǎo tuǐ lower leg (from knee to ankle); shank ∼HSK 2
guò to spend the night; overnight ∼HSK 2
dài guò to give sth only cursory attention; to treat sth as not very significant ∼HSK 2
àn table, bench; legal case ∼HSK 2
chī diào to eat up; to consume ∼HSK 2
midnight ∼HSK 2
滿 mǎn shēn covered all over ∼HSK 2
cháng piàn feature-length film ∼HSK 2
xié zi shoe ∼HSK 2
lái jiǎng as to; considering; for ∼HSK 2
shí real, true; honest, sincere ∼HSK 2
滿 jiā mǎn to top up; to fill to the brim ∼HSK 2
de hěn (after an adjective) very ∼HSK 2