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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clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes HSK 6
gōng to attack; to accuse; to charge; an attack (terrorist or military) HSK 6
mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
jǐn to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to HSK 6
qīng (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) HSK 6
shá dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] HSK 6
special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex HSK 6
as; as if; such as HSK 6
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by HSK 6
and; to give; together with HSK 6
shī No time to lose! (idiom) Idiom ∼HSK 5
chí le late Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
zi beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; (coll.) bandit Colloquialism HSK 5
shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 5
píng duckweed; wandering, traveling ∼HSK 5
Cuī high, lofty, towering; surname ∼HSK 5
juān beautiful, graceful ∼HSK 5
Yǐn govern; oversee; director ∼HSK 5
ruì felicitous omen; auspicious ∼HSK 5
mile ∼HSK 5
Hóng vast, immense; flood, deluge ∼HSK 5
huà shēng family planning ∼HSK 5
hái to be better off...; might as well... ∼HSK 5
shèn what (literary, = 什么) ∼HSK 5
kàn qīng to see clearly ∼HSK 5
róu soft; gentle, pliant ∼HSK 5
姿 姿 beauty; disposition; looks; appearance ∼HSK 5
huǒ bào fiery (temper); popular; flourishing; prosperous; lively ∼HSK 5
ǎn I, me (northern dialect) ∼HSK 5
cào (substitute for) fuck; WTF ∼HSK 5
paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary) ∼HSK 5
shēng yuè vocal music ∼HSK 5
méi eyebrows; upper margin of book ∼HSK 5
me interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) ∼HSK 5
chā duì to cut in line; to jump a queue; to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution) ∼HSK 5
wěi great, robust; extraordinary ∼HSK 5
tāo large waves ∼HSK 5
bǐng large flat bread ∼HSK 5
bāo womb, placenta, fetal membrane ∼HSK 5
to gaze at ∼HSK 5
é be beautiful; good; surname ∼HSK 5
chěng indulge oneself; brag, show off ∼HSK 5
hái r child (term of address) ∼HSK 5
kàng the brick-bed in northern China ∼HSK 5
lēng squared timber; angle, edge ∼HSK 5
zhāng camphor tree ∼HSK 5
axe-handle; stalk, bough; surname ∼HSK 5
Yáo handsome, elegant; surname ∼HSK 5
fēng point of spear, sharp point ∼HSK 5