Dumplings 2004

饺子 jiǎozi

Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer, a fading actress, is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.

HSK 1

3.86 Beginner Director Fruit Chan IMDb 6.7

Cast

Miriam Yeung Chin-Wah Mrs. Lee

Bai Ling Mei

Tony Leung Ka-fai Mr. Lee Pauline Lau Masseuse Meme Tian Pu-Jun Connie

Miki Yeung Oi-Gan Kate

Wong Siu-Foon Kate's Mother Wong Sum-Yuen Old Hairdresser Wu Wai-Man Mei's nurse friend Ho-Man Chan Wang Suo-yi

Vocabulary

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阿姨阿姨 ā yí	maternal aunt; step-mother; childcare worker; nursemaid; woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child)	HSK 4
青春青春 qīng chūn	youth; youthfulness	HSK 4
多年多年 duō nián	many years; for many years; longstanding	HSK 4
棵棵 kē	classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc	HSK 4
装修裝修 zhuāng xiū	to decorate; interior decoration; to fit up; to renovate	HSK 4
大陆大陸 Dà lù	mainland China (reference to the PRC)	HSK 4
拍照拍照 pāi zhào	to take a picture	HSK 4
护士護士 hù shi	nurse	HSK 4
细細 xì	thin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft; fine; delicate; trifling; (of a sound) quiet; frugal	HSK 4
平均平均 píng jūn	average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions	HSK 4
购物購物 gòu wù	shopping	HSK 4
引引 yǐn	to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters	HSK 4
摸摸 mō	to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract	HSK 4
新鲜新鮮 xīn xiān	fresh (experience, food etc); freshness; novel; uncommon	HSK 4
守守 shǒu	to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining	HSK 4
似的似的 shì de	seems as if; rather like; Taiwan pr. [sì de]	HSK 4
牙牙 yá	tooth; ivory	HSK 4
分手分手 fēn shǒu	to part company; to split up; to break up	HSK 4
箱箱 xiāng	box; trunk; chest	HSK 4
吸吸 xī	to breathe; to suck in; to absorb; to inhale	HSK 4
放松放鬆 fàng sōng	to relax; to slacken; to loosen	HSK 4
透透 tòu	(bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly; through and through; to appear; to show	HSK 4
呼吸呼吸 hū xī	to breathe	HSK 4
宝宝寶寶 bǎo bao	darling; baby	HSK 4
刺激刺激 cì jī	to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant	HSK 4
躺躺 tǎng	to recline; to lie down	HSK 4
人家人家 rén jiā	household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be	HSK 4
替替 tì	to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for	HSK 4
怀疑懷疑 huái yí	to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that	HSK 4
毕业畢業 bì yè	graduation; to graduate; to finish school	HSK 4
货貨 huò	goods; money; commodity	HSK 4
怪怪 guài	bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather	HSK 4
承认承認 chéng rèn	to admit; to concede; to recognize; recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc); to acknowledge	HSK 4
加入加入 jiā rù	to become a member; to join; to mix into; to participate in; to add in	HSK 4
手术手術 shǒu shù	(surgical) operation; surgery	HSK 4
王王 wáng	king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great	HSK 4
历史歷史 lì shǐ	history	HSK 4
首首 shǒu	head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc	HSK 4
些些 xiē	classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several	HSK 4
呀呀 ya	(particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)	HSK 4
之后之後 zhī hòu	after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then	HSK 4
担心擔心 dān xīn	anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious	HSK 4
而而 ér	and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast)	HSK 4
一生一世一生一世 yī shēng yī shì	a whole lifetime (idiom); all my life	Idiom ∼HSK 3
回春回春 huí chūn	return of spring	Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
心里有数心裡有數 xīn lǐ yǒu shù	to know the score (idiom); to be well aware of the situation	Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
要是要是 yào shi	(coll.) if	Colloquialism HSK 3
整整 zhěng	exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb	Colloquialism HSK 3
血血 xuè	blood; colloquial pr. [xiě]	Colloquialism HSK 3
水浒传水滸傳 Shuǐ hǔ Zhuàn	Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature	Proper Noun ∼HSK 3