Princess Iron Fan

Princess Iron Fan 1966

tiě shān gōngzhǔ

The mythological tale of a quest from China to India to bring back Buddhist scriptures, famous for the adventures of Sun Wukong, the notorious Monkey King.

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Vocabulary

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lián to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) HSK 3
使 使 shǐ to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger HSK 3
shòu to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker) HSK 3
zhǐ yǒu only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") HSK 3
jué dìng to decide (to do something); to resolve; decision; certainly HSK 3
already; to stop; then; afterwards HSK 3
xīn heart; mind; intention; center; core HSK 3
to continue; to proceed with; to go on with HSK 3
zhǐ shì merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however HSK 3
wèi le for; for the purpose of; in order to HSK 3
wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
suǒ actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive HSK 3
bìng and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge HSK 3
jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
bèi quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) HSK 3
to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) HSK 3
shí wàn qiān light-years (apart); a million miles (apart); (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance) Idiom ∼HSK 2
shān cháng shuǐ yuǎn (idiom) long and arduous journey Idiom ∼HSK 2
bàn bu dào impossible; can't be done; no can do; unable to accomplish Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
jiǎ de bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
yào liǎn to have no sense of shame; shameless Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
nán shàng jiā nán extremely difficult; even more difficult Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
nán kàn ugly; unsightly Xiehouyu HSK 2
nán guò to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult Xiehouyu HSK 2
zhèng hǎo just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that Xiehouyu HSK 2
lǎo tóu zi (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man Colloquialism ∼HSK 2
māo cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem Colloquialism HSK 2
tǐng straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns Colloquialism HSK 2
Dōng Hǎi East China Sea; East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
míng Daming county in Handan, Hebei Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
cóng jīn hòu from now on; henceforward ∼HSK 2
jiè gěi to lend to sb ∼HSK 2
dìng yào must ∼HSK 2
must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot ∼HSK 2
zhǐ I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe; very likely ∼HSK 2
yòu lái le Here we go again. ∼HSK 2
sān gēng - bàn (idiom) in the depth of the night; very late at night ∼HSK 2
zhù help, aid, assist ∼HSK 2
jiāo chū to hand over ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
chī bǎo to eat one's fill ∼HSK 2
cháng shēng - lǎo (idiom) to live forever and never grow old ∼HSK 2
jiàn to drive a wedge between (allies, partners etc) ∼HSK 2
shā rén homicide; to murder; to kill (a person) ∼HSK 2
tiān providence; the Will of Heaven ∼HSK 2
dào via; by way of; en route to ∼HSK 2
to accept or reject ∼HSK 2
cháng nián all the year round ∼HSK 2