Old Fox

Old Fox 2023

lǎohúli

Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.

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3.68 Beginner Director Hsiao Ya-chuan IMDb 7.2

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wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
zhǒng seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) HSK 3
to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) HSK 3
zhèng hǎo just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that Xiehouyu HSK 2
kāi xīn to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb Xiehouyu HSK 2
gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism HSK 2
jiànguò seen HSK 2
shí hou at that time HSK 2
mǎi fáng to buy a house ∼HSK 2
Huá flowery; illustrious; Chinese ∼HSK 2
píng děng inequality; unfairness ∼HSK 2
fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
dàn huáng egg yolk ∼HSK 2
xiǎo hái child ∼HSK 2
zǎi load; carry; transport, convey ∼HSK 2
shōu fáng to take as a concubine ∼HSK 2
Lín forest, grove; surname ∼HSK 2
mài diào to sell off ∼HSK 2
lián connect, join; associate, ally ∼HSK 2
měi every time ∼HSK 2
zhǐ 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply ∼HSK 2
亿 qiān myriads; hundred billion ∼HSK 2
lǎo tóu old fellow; old man; father; husband ∼HSK 2
bèi yǐng rear view; figure seen from behind; view of the back (of a person or object) ∼HSK 2
yuè to rent by the month ∼HSK 2
méi wèn no problem ∼HSK 2
miàn abbr. of; minivan taxi ∼HSK 2
Chén exhibit, display; plead; a surname ∼HSK 2
quán lěi home run (baseball) ∼HSK 2
fáng to rent an apartment ∼HSK 2
bào abalone ∼HSK 2
yǒu gòu very; extremely ∼HSK 2
gāi should not; to owe nothing ∼HSK 2
zǎo zhī dao If I had known earlier... ∼HSK 2
huài diào to get broken; to get damaged; to get ruined ∼HSK 2
shén me shí hou when?; at what time? ∼HSK 2
cái by no means; definitely not; as if!; yeah right! ∼HSK 2
yòng qi you're welcome; don't mention it; no need to stand on ceremony ∼HSK 2
zhǐ not only; not merely ∼HSK 2
kàn zǒu yǎn to make an error of judgment; to be taken in ∼HSK 2
kāi dēng to turn on the light ∼HSK 2
suǒ yǒu rén everyone; owner ∼HSK 2
Wéi maintain, preserve, safeguard ∼HSK 2
céng lóu multistoried building; tower; pagoda ∼HSK 2
sòng xìn to send word; to deliver a letter ∼HSK 2