House of Flying Daggers

House of Flying Daggers 2004

shímiànmái

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

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4.54 Intermediate Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 87%

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Vocabulary

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jiàn arrow HSK 6
mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly HSK 6
shì this matter HSK 6
cóng never HSK 6
fàng shǒu to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand HSK 6
sufficient to...; so much so that; so that HSK 6
tiān xià land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule HSK 6
běn local; this locality HSK 6
tàng classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip HSK 6
kěn to agree; to consent; to be willing to HSK 6
lonely; solitary HSK 6
yuán liàng to excuse; to forgive; to pardon HSK 6
jiàn not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing HSK 6
mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female HSK 6
bìng disease; sickness; ailment HSK 6
theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe HSK 6
yìn to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image HSK 6
suàn shì considered to be; at last HSK 6
zhōu prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland) HSK 6
wèi why HSK 6
Zàng Tibet; abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 藏 HSK 6
mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
ruò to seem; like; as; if HSK 6
yuán former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source HSK 6
to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 HSK 6
zài no more; no longer 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
yǒu guān to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning HSK 6
zuō worker; workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person) HSK 6
and; to give; together with HSK 6
gǔn kāi (of a liquid) to boil; boiling hot; (rude) get out!; go away!; fuck off! Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
will die for sure; to be a goner Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind Xiehouyu HSK 5
Liǔ willow tree; pleasure ∼HSK 5
guān authorities; feudal official ∼HSK 5
máng blind; unperceptive, shortsighted ∼HSK 5
dùn pái shield; pretext; excuse ∼HSK 5
xiōng men brothers; comrades; men; brethren ∼HSK 5
姿 姿 good looks (of a woman) ∼HSK 5
zōng footprints, traces, tracks ∼HSK 5
zhuī shā to chase to kill ∼HSK 5
zěn néng how can ∼HSK 5
what (literary) ∼HSK 5
xún shì to inspect (a site); (of a dignitary) to visit; to go on an inspection tour; to survey (a scene); to scan with one's eyes ∼HSK 5
zhū shā to kill; to murder ∼HSK 5
zhī evidently; clearly; no wonder; knowable ∼HSK 5
na modal particle ∼HSK 5
suǒ zhì to be caused by ∼HSK 5
nián yòu young; underage ∼HSK 5
gǒu bullshit; nonsense ∼HSK 5