Full River Red 2023
满江红
During China's Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui's palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.
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Vocabulary
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| 死罪 死罪 | capital offense; crime punishable by death; my deepest apologies | |
| 尸首 屍首 | dead body; corpse (Note: In expressions like 屍首分離|尸首分离[shi1shou5-fen1li2] or 屍首異處|尸首异处[shi1shou5-yi4chu4], decapitation is implied.) | |
| 信鸽 信鴿 | homing pigeon; carrier pigeon | |
| 惨烈 慘烈 | bitter; desperate | |
| 歹毒 歹毒 | vicious; ruthless; malevolent | |
| 没命 沒命 | to lose one's life; to die; recklessly; desperately | |
| 何物 何物 | what thing | |
| 御赐 御賜 | to be bestowed by the emperor | |
| 面圣 面聖 | (old) to have an audience with the emperor | |
| 副将 副將 | deputy general | |
| 除掉 除掉 | to eliminate | |
| 敬上 敬上 | yours truly; yours sincerely (at the end of a letter) | |
| 尸身 屍身 | corpse; dead body | |
| 主使 主使 | to mastermind; to orchestrate; to instigate; mastermind; instigator | |
| 精忠报国 精忠報國 | 精: essence; semen; spirit · 忠: loyalty, devotion, fidelity · 报: report, tell, announce · 国: nation, country, nation-state | |
| 岳家 岳家 | wife's parents' home | |
| 背负 背負 | to bear; to carry on one's back; to shoulder | |
| 何人 何人 | who | |
| 奸臣 奸臣 | a treacherous court official; a minister who conspires against the state | |
| 文武 文武 | civil and military | |
| 狱卒 獄卒 | jailer (old) | |
| 饶命 饒命 | to spare sb's life | |
| 鞣制 鞣製 | to tan (leather); tanning | |
| 寻机 尋機 | to look for an opportunity | |
| 大略 大略 | a broad outline; the general idea; roughly | |
| 原定 原定 | originally planned; originally determined | |
| 今晨 今晨 | this morning | |
| 紧盯 緊盯 | to gaze; to stare fixedly | |
| 时限 時限 | time limit | |
| 办妥 辦妥 | to arrange; to settle; to complete; to carry through | |
| 一把屎一把尿 一把屎一把尿 | to have endured all sorts of hardships (to raise one's children) (idiom) | |
| 再审 再審 | to hear a case again; review; retrial | |
| 驸马 駙馬 | imperial son-in-law | |
| 讯问 訊問 | to interrogate; to ask about | |
| 人精 人精 | sophisticate; man with extensive experience; child prodigy; Wunderkind (i.e. brilliant child); spirit within a person (i.e. blood and essential breath 血氣|血气 of TCM) | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 尊姓大名 尊姓大名 | 尊: respect, revere, venerate; honor · 大: big, great, vast, large, high · 名: name, rank, title, position | |
| 龌龊 齷齪 | dirty; filthy; vile; despicable; (literary) narrow-minded; petty | |
| 败露 敗露 | (of a plot etc) to fall through and stand exposed | |
| 半条命 半條命 | half a life; only half alive; barely alive; (scared, beaten etc) half to death | |
| 水刑 水刑 | water-boarding (torture) | |
| 抵赖 抵賴 | to refuse to admit (what one has done); to disavow; to renege | |
| 卧房 臥房 | bedroom; a sleeping compartment (on a train) | |
| 公报私仇 公報私仇 | to use public office to avenge private wrongs | |
| 罪责 罪責 | guilt | |
| 闭着 閉著 | closed | |
| 烂泥 爛泥 | mud; mire | |
| 报章 報章 | newspapers | |
| 冒风险 冒風險 | to take risks | |
| 公堂 公堂 | law court; hall (in castle); CL:家[jia1] |