On Happiness Road

On Happiness Road 2018

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Chi earned her American dream after persevering with her studies in Taiwan. Following her grandmothers’ death, Chi returns to her family on Happiness Road, where she begins to feel nostalgic about her childhood and starts to contemplate the meaning of “life” and “home”. What is happiness? Will Chi find her own happiness?

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4.0 Intermediate Director Sung Hsin-Yin 🍅 100%

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unable; incapable Xiehouyu HSK 4
bái bái (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) Colloquialism ∼HSK 4
qióng poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly Colloquialism HSK 4
lǎo gōng (coll.) husband Colloquialism HSK 4
trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [lè sè] Colloquialism HSK 4
lǎo (coll.) wife Colloquialism HSK 4
shāo to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head Colloquialism HSK 4
shuài (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) Colloquialism HSK 4
bào to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely Colloquialism HSK 4
Sūn Sun (surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Jiǎng gōng honorific title for Chiang Kai-shek Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Gāo xióng Kaohsiung, a special municipality in south Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Shā Ā Saudi Arabia (Tw) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Gāo xióng shì Kaohsiung or Gaoxiong city in south Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Huáng hòu Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
yuàn Legislative Yuan, the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Yīng jiǔ Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei 1998-2006, president of Republic of China 2008-2016 Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Cài lín Jolin Tsai (1980-), Taiwanese singer Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Léi gōng Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Héng yáng Hengyang, prefecture-level city in Hunan Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Tái Taiwan independence; (of Taiwan) to declare independence Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Liú huá Andy Lau (1961-), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Lián Zhàn Lien Chan (1936-), Taiwanese politician, former vice-president and chairman of Guomintang Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
dàn jié Christmas (Tw) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Mín jìn dǎng DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan); abbr. for 民主進步黨|民主进步党 Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Chāo rén Superman, comic book superhero Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
méi xiǎng dào didn't expect HSK 4
Bèi sea shell; money, currency ∼HSK 4
zǎi small thing, child; young animal ∼HSK 4
peduncle or stem of plants ∼HSK 4
zěn yāo huì how could it ∼HSK 4
zhuāng village, hamlet; villa, manor ∼HSK 4
slowly, quietly, calmly; composed, dignified ∼HSK 4
guāi guāi (of a child) well-behaved; obediently; (term of endearment for a child) darling; sweetie ∼HSK 4
zhé xué jiā philosopher ∼HSK 4
Sāng mulberry tree; surname ∼HSK 4
beautiful, magnificent, elegant ∼HSK 4
xiá chivalrous person; knight-errant ∼HSK 4
méi bàn there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it ∼HSK 4
yǒng brave, courageous, fierce ∼HSK 4
variant of ∼HSK 4
xiū xiū liǎn (jocular) shame on you! ∼HSK 4
mèng dào to dream of; to dream about ∼HSK 4
shuǐ jiǎo boiled dumpling (made by wrapping a pasta skin around a filling, like ravioli) ∼HSK 4
zhè yàng zi so; such; this way; like this ∼HSK 4
jīn golden; gold (color) ∼HSK 4
wèi miǎn to defend the crown (in sports championship) ∼HSK 4
duck; Anas species (various) ∼HSK 4
pàn luàn armed rebellion ∼HSK 4
yán lùn yóu freedom of speech ∼HSK 4