Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 2010

rénjié zhī tōng tiān guó

When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.

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5.4 Advanced Director Tsui Hark 🍅 80%

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tiān xià land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule HSK 6
le a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much) HSK 6
Buddha; Buddhism (abbr. for 陀) HSK 6
zuān to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain HSK 6
duó to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose HSK 6
pàn to judge; to sentence; to discriminate; to discern; clearly distinguishable HSK 6
guān unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) HSK 6
zhì huì wisdom; knowledge; intelligent; intelligence HSK 6
tián field; farm HSK 6
tāng to wade; to trample; to turn the soil HSK 6
quán with all one's strength; full strength; all-out (effort); fully (support) HSK 6
gōng palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale HSK 6
to bet; to gamble HSK 6
huǐ to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander HSK 6
to protect HSK 6
zhèng zhuàng symptom (of an illness) HSK 6
gōng public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) HSK 6
jiāng jūn general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot HSK 6
jiàn not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing HSK 6
kòu button HSK 6
běn shēn itself; in itself; per se HSK 6
to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc) HSK 6
jìn gōng to attack; to assault; to go on the offensive; attack; assault; offense (sports) HSK 6
liáo to chat; to depend upon (literary); temporarily; just; slightly HSK 6
quán power; authority HSK 6
chǎo to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate; to hype; to fire (sb) HSK 6
suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
zuì guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin HSK 6
zhōu prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland) HSK 6
wèi why HSK 6
hùn to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless HSK 6
zuì jiā optimum; optimal; peak; best (athlete, movie etc) HSK 6
jiàn double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword HSK 6
shuō shí huà to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly HSK 6
clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes HSK 6
zhèn to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) HSK 6
cáng to conceal; to hide away; to harbor; to store; to collect HSK 6
zhāo to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess HSK 6
mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
ruò to seem; like; as; if HSK 6
secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions HSK 6
quán authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary HSK 6
variant of 逼; to compel; to pressure HSK 6
qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) HSK 6
shá dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] HSK 6
便 便 biàn plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards HSK 6
to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 HSK 6
special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex HSK 6
yīn cause; reason; because HSK 6
yǒu guān to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning HSK 6