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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shān mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on Colloquialism HSK 1
ba (coll.) father; dad Colloquialism HSK 1
kuài lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units Colloquialism HSK 1
huā flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful Colloquialism HSK 1
(coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 1
(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) Colloquialism HSK 1
zháo to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in Colloquialism HSK 1
Shàng hǎi Shanghai municipality Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Xiāng gǎng Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Zhōng guó rén Chinese person Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Měi guó United States; USA; US Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Nán jīng Nanjing St., large commercial street in Shanghai Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
běn rén Japanese person or people Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Tái wān variant of Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Jiǔ yuè September; ninth month (of the lunar year) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
dōng Pudong, a district of Shanghai to the east of the Huangpu River, full name Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
广 Guǎng dōng Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Lǎo Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, by Laozi Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
guó Germany Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
guó France Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Gòng chǎn dǎng Communist Party Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Hàn kǒu Hankou, part of Wuhan 武漢|武汉 at the junction of Han river and Changjiang in Hubei Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Zhōng Zhongdu, capital of China during the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), modern day Beijing Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
rén bāng Gang of Four: Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, Wang Hongwen, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Shāng shuǐ Shangshui county in Zhoukou, Henan Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Sān chóng Sanchong, a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan; Mie Prefecture in central Japan Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
shuō lái Say ∼HSK 1
yǒu xiē somewhat; rather; some HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
ge that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler ∼HSK 1
dào liǎo at last; finally; in the end ∼HSK 1
chē zi car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc) ∼HSK 1
zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
hǎo no good ∼HSK 1
jiā de (old) wife ∼HSK 1
èr shí twenty; 20 ∼HSK 1
zhǒng one kind of; one type of ∼HSK 1
ge a few; several; how many ∼HSK 1
xiǎo cài appetizer; small side dish; easy job; piece of cake; see also ∼HSK 1
měi each; every ∼HSK 1
jūn army, military; soldiers, troops ∼HSK 1
huì a moment; a while; in a moment; also pr. [yi1 hui3] ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
lǎo zǎo a long time ago ∼HSK 1
zài hòu behind ∼HSK 1
gēn zhe to follow after; immediately afterwards ∼HSK 1
zài wài outer; excluded ∼HSK 1