Platform

Platform 2001

zhàntái

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

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4.03 Intermediate Director Jia Zhangke 🍅 80%

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Vocabulary

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qi you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite; rude; blunt Xiehouyu HSK 1
hǎo kàn good-looking; nice-looking; good (of a movie, book, TV show etc); embarrassed; humiliated Xiehouyu HSK 1
gān (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 干; (archaic) shield Xiehouyu HSK 1
kàn kan to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
shi (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
chī de (coll.) food Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhè bu (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
jīn r (coll.) today Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
huì improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xiǎo de (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhēn shi indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hǎo bu hǎo (coll.) all right?; OK? Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
yǒu bìng to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zuó r (coll.) yesterday Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kuài a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xíng le (coll.) on the point of death; dying Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhè huì r (coll.) now; this moment; also pr. [zhè huǐ r] Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
cài dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor Colloquialism HSK 1
ròu meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130 Colloquialism HSK 1
shān mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on Colloquialism HSK 1
ba (coll.) father; dad Colloquialism HSK 1
kuài lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units Colloquialism HSK 1
huā flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful Colloquialism HSK 1
(coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 1
(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) Colloquialism HSK 1
zháo to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in Colloquialism HSK 1
Sān míng Sanming, prefecture-level city in Fujian Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Sháo shān Shaoshan, county-level city in Xiangtan, Hunan Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
广 Guǎng zhōu Guangzhou, sub-provincial city and capital of Guangdong Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Gòng chǎn dǎng Communist Party Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Sān yuè March; third month (of the lunar year) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Máo mao (pet name for a baby or small child) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Yòng Wu Yong, character of, nicknamed Resourceful Star Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
shān Dashan, stage name of Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell (1965-), actor and well-known TV personality in PRC Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Zhōng shān Zhongshan, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province; Nakayama (Japanese surname); Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党; same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙 Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
广 Guǎng dōng Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
shéi zhī dào God knows...; Who would have imagined...? ∼HSK 1
nán hái r erhua variant of 男孩; boy HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
jūn army, military; soldiers, troops ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
zhè shì 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that ∼HSK 1
xiǎng unexpectedly; to one's surprise ∼HSK 1
xià (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly ∼HSK 1
ge that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler ∼HSK 1
méi shì it's not important; it's nothing; never mind; to have nothing to do; to be free; to be all right (out of danger or trouble) ∼HSK 1
zài together ∼HSK 1
diǎn a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia ∼HSK 1
gōng labor, work; worker, laborer ∼HSK 1