I Wish I Knew

I Wish I Knew 2010

hǎishàng chuán

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

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4.07 Intermediate Director Jia Zhangke 🍅 100%

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Vocabulary

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huì party; gathering; to meet; to get together HSK 4
jiě mèi sisters; siblings; sister (school, city etc) HSK 4
xiǎng niàn to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again HSK 4
liè (of competition or fighting) intense; fierce; (of pain) acute; (of an expression of opinion) impassioned; vehement; (of a course of action) drastic; extreme HSK 4
to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove HSK 4
xià underground; subterranean; covert HSK 4
hot (spicy); pungent; (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting; to burn HSK 4
jié gòu structure; composition; makeup; architecture HSK 4
dēng to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old) HSK 4
zi belly; abdomen; stomach HSK 4
huáng jīn gold; golden (opportunity); prime (time) HSK 4
biāo zhì sign; mark; symbol; logo; to symbolize; to indicate; to mark HSK 4
cāo zuò to work; to operate; to manipulate HSK 4
mín resident; inhabitant HSK 4
bīng soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike HSK 4
huì general assembly; general meeting; convention HSK 4
lái yuán source (of information etc); origin HSK 4
zhǔ chairperson; premier; chairman HSK 4
a household; door; family HSK 4
liáng to measure HSK 4
juǎn to roll up; roll; classifier for small rolled things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc) HSK 4
fán to feel vexed; to bother; to trouble; superfluous and confusing; edgy HSK 4
zhuǎn to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize HSK 4
jiē (of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds); Taiwan pr. [jié] HSK 4
tiē to stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog); to keep close to; to fit snugly; to subsidize; allowance (e.g. money for food or housing); sticker; classifier for sticking plaster: strip HSK 4
bǎo jewel; gem; treasure; precious HSK 4
访 cǎi fǎng to interview; to gather news; to hunt for and collect; to cover HSK 4
independent; independence; to stand alone HSK 4
rén jiā household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be HSK 4
jiū jìng to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result HSK 4
graduation; to graduate; to finish school HSK 4
rén enemy HSK 4
chè thorough; thoroughly; complete HSK 4
jué role; character in a novel; persona; also pr. [jiǎo sè] HSK 4
huò goods; money; commodity HSK 4
chōu to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash HSK 4
secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret HSK 4
huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous HSK 4
shēn qǐng to apply for sth; application form HSK 4
mèng xiǎng (fig.) to dream of; dream HSK 4
shēn fèn identity; aspect of one's identity (i.e. sth that one is – mayor, father, permanent resident etc); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as a ..." 以…份); status (social, legal etc); position; rank HSK 4
xǐng to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to HSK 4
fān to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross HSK 4
zhàng fu husband HSK 4
pán plate; dish; tray; board; hard drive (computing); to build; to coil; to check; to examine; to transfer (property); to make over; classifier for food: dish, helping; to coil; classifier for coils of wire; classifier for games of chess HSK 4
chuán tǒng tradition; traditional; convention; conventional HSK 4
zhèng zhì politics; political HSK 4
fǎn contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 切 phonetic system HSK 4
zhàn zhēng war; conflict HSK 4
gēn root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) HSK 4