Only the River Flows

Only the River Flows 2023

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Dedicated police detective Ma Zhe is tasked with solving a series of brutal murders in a rural Chinese town. As pressure mounts from his superiors, a hasty arrest is made, but while his colleagues celebrate, several clues push Ma Zhe deeper into a desperate investigation of his own.

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3.84 Beginner Director Wei Shujun 🍅 85%

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Vocabulary

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ēn (a groaning sound) HSK 4
jìng rán unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to HSK 4
fān to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross HSK 4
chuán tǒng tradition; traditional; convention; conventional HSK 4
pán plate; dish; tray; board; hard drive (computing); to build; to coil; to check; to examine; to transfer (property); to make over; classifier for food: dish, helping; to coil; classifier for coils of wire; classifier for games of chess HSK 4
dài to look forward to; to await; expectation HSK 4
chōng (of water) to dash against; to mix with water; to infuse; to rinse; to flush; to develop (a film); to rise in the air; to clash; to collide with HSK 4
gòng common; general; to share; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共产党, Communist party HSK 4
gēn root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) HSK 4
lùn no matter what or how; regardless of whether... HSK 4
dào to meet; to run into; to come across HSK 4
wáng king or monarch; best or strongest of its type; grand; great HSK 4
jìn nearby; neighboring; (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood HSK 4
fāng square; power or involution (math.); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter HSK 4
wèi zhi position; place; seat HSK 4
mèng dream; (bound form) to dream HSK 4
guǎn not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter HSK 4
background; bottom; base; end (of the month, year etc); remnants; (math.) radix; base HSK 4
narrow HSK 4
France; French; abbr. for 法国; Taiwan pr. [Fà] HSK 4
zhì liáo to treat (an illness); medical treatment; therapy HSK 4
shǒu head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc HSK 4
kǎo to think over; to consider; consideration HSK 4
zhī qián before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand HSK 4
zhī jiān (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间) HSK 4
ya (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) HSK 4
liǎo jiě to understand; to realize; to find out HSK 4
zhī hòu after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then HSK 4
dān xīn anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious HSK 4
què but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though HSK 4
chū prominent; outstanding; to give prominence to; to protrude; to project Xiehouyu HSK 3
shēn profound; deep; deep-going Xiehouyu HSK 3
rén dead person; (coll.) to die; (of a death) to happen Colloquialism ∼HSK 3
yào shi (coll.) if Colloquialism HSK 3
shū to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) Colloquialism HSK 3
zhěng exactly; in good order; whole; complete; entire; in order; orderly; to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb Colloquialism HSK 3
xuè blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] Colloquialism HSK 3
cūn village; hamlet Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
duì cavalry; caravan of horses carrying goods ∼HSK 3
gàn what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? ∼HSK 3
zhě the dead; the deceased ∼HSK 3
bào shàng in the newspaper ∼HSK 3
shāng rén to injure sb ∼HSK 3
huā the flowering season ∼HSK 3
Chǔ name of feudal state; clear ∼HSK 3
shì r matter, affair ∼HSK 3
gān responsibility ∼HSK 3
zhèng exhibit (law) ∼HSK 3
zhuā zǒu to arrest ∼HSK 3
méi at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice ∼HSK 3