Left-Handed Girl 2025
左撇子女孩
A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand at a vibrant night market, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start.
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Vocabulary
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| 勒 勒 | to rein in; to compel; to force; to carve; to engrave; (literary) to command; to lead; bridle; (physics) abbr. for 斯, lux | |
| 唉 唉 | interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!); to sigh | |
| 尸体 屍體 | dead body; corpse; carcass | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 感 感 | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 混为一谈 混為一談 | to confuse one thing with another (idiom); to muddle | Idiom |
| 先斩后奏 先斬後奏 | lit. first execute the criminal, then report it to the emperor (idiom); fig. to take some drastic action without the prior approval of higher authorities | Idiom |
| 福如东海 福如東海 | may your happiness be as immense as the East Sea (idiom) | Idiom |
| 好险 好險 | to have a close call; to have a narrow escape | Xiehouyu |
| 不像样 不像樣 | in no shape to be seen; unpresentable; beyond recognition | Xiehouyu |
| 心虚 心虛 | lacking in confidence; diffident; to have a guilty conscience | Xiehouyu |
| 鬼扯 鬼扯 | nonsense; humbug; bunk; bullshit | Xiehouyu |
| 贱人 賤人 | slut; cheap person | Xiehouyu |
| 神不知鬼不觉 神不知鬼不覺 | top secret; hush-hush | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 劲爆 勁爆 | (coll.) awesome; stunning; electrifying; breathtaking; (originally Cantonese); also pr. [jin4 bao4] | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 背景音乐 背景音樂 | background music (BGM); soundtrack; musical setting | |
| 激昂 激昂 | impassioned; worked up | |
| 槟榔 檳榔 | betel palm (Areca catechu); betel nut | |
| 曾祖母 曾祖母 | father's father's mother; paternal great-grandmother | |
| 鸣笛 鳴笛 | to hoot; to whistle | |
| 阿公 阿公 | (old) grandfather; polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law; (Taiwanese) grandfather | |
| 炒饭 炒飯 | fried rice; (Tw) (slang) to have sex | |
| 狐獴 狐獴 | meerkat | |
| 丧葬费 喪葬費 | funeral expenses | |
| 泡面 泡麵 | instant noodles; (Tw) pirated software | |
| 摊位 攤位 | vendor's booth | |
| 摊子 攤子 | booth; vendor's stall; (fig.) organizational structure; scale of operations | |
| 馄饨 餛飩 | wonton; Chinese ravioli (served in soup); Taiwan pr. [hun2dun5] | |
| 冷藏 冷藏 | refrigeration; cold storage; to keep (food, medicine) in cold environment | |
| 扣子 釦子 | button | |
| 纱窗 紗窗 | screen window | |
| 舒缓 舒緩 | to ease (tension); to relax; to cause sth to relax; to alleviate; relaxed; easy and unhurried; leisurely; soothing; mild (slope) | |
| 珍珠奶茶 珍珠奶茶 | pearl milk tea; tapioca milk tea; bubble milk tea | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 分摊 分攤 | to share (costs, responsibilities); to apportion | |
| 烂摊子 爛攤子 | terrible mess; shambles | |
| 喧嚣 喧囂 | to clamor; to make noise | |
| 心肝宝贝 心肝寶貝 | precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart |