Old Fox 2023
老狐狸
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.
Cast
Vocabulary
Filter the words you want to study before watching.
| 八 八 | eight; 8 | |
| 忘记 忘記 | to forget | |
| 班 班 | team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles | |
| 休息 休息 | rest; to rest | |
| 回去 回去 | to return; to go back | |
| 爸 爸 | father; dad; pa; papa | |
| 哥 哥 | elder brother | |
| 关 關 | mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc); to concern; to involve | |
| 房子 房子 | house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room | |
| 冷 冷 | cold | |
| 认真 認真 | conscientious; earnest; serious; to take seriously; to take to heart | |
| 忘 忘 | to forget; to overlook; to neglect | |
| 不用 不用 | need not | |
| 读 讀 | comma; phrase marked by pause | |
| 教 教 | religion; teaching; to make; to cause; to tell | |
| 差 差 | difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly | |
| 第 第 | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 六 "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just | |
| 西 西 | the West; abbr. for Spain 牙; Spanish | |
| 试 試 | to test; to try; experiment; examination; test | |
| 字 字 | letter; symbol; character; word; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China | |
| 女儿 女兒 | daughter | |
| 听到 聽到 | to hear | |
| 忙 忙 | busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush | |
| 马上 馬上 | at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force) | |
| 名字 名字 | name (of a person or thing) | |
| 医生 醫生 | doctor | |
| 大学 大學 | the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism | |
| 六 六 | six; 6 | |
| 下午 下午 | afternoon; p.m. | |
| 介绍 介紹 | to introduce (sb to sb); to give a presentation; to present (sb for a job etc); introduction | |
| 那里 那裏 | there; that place | |
| 楼 樓 | house with more than 1 story; storied building; floor | |
| 包 包 | to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; to contract (to or for); package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet | |
| 哪里 哪裏 | where?; somewhere; anywhere; wherever; nowhere (negative answer to question); humble expression denying compliment; also written 哪里 | |
| 元 元 | currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); first; original; primary; fundamental; constituent; part; era (of a reign); meta- (prefix); (math.) argument; variable; (Tw) (geology) eon | |
| 半 半 | half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half | |
| 记得 記得 | to remember | |
| 杯 杯 | cup; trophy cup; classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup | |
| 儿子 兒子 | son | |
| 学生 學生 | student; schoolchild | |
| 远 遠 | far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc) | |
| 子 子 | son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat; Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 位; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; sub- | |
| 真的 真的 | really, truly, indeed | |
| 重 重 | to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer | |
| 医院 醫院 | hospital | |
| 五 五 | five; 5 | |
| 晚 晚 | evening; night; late | |
| 昨天 昨天 | yesterday | |
| 回家 回家 | to return home | |
| 跑 跑 | (of an animal) to paw (the ground) |