Tai Chi Hero 2012
太极2:英雄崛起
Chinese steampunk martial arts blockbuster about the early years of Tai chi master Yang Luchan, the man who founded in the 19th century what has now become the most popular Tai Chi style in the world. The second instalment of the "Tai Chi" trilogy continues the journey of Yang Luchan, a gifted child with a fleshy growth on his forehead who helped save a village from a frightening army of steampunk soldiers bearing strange machines with the knowledge of Tai Chi that they entrusted him with.
Cast
Vocabulary
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| 党 黨 | party; association; club; society | |
| 算是 算是 | considered to be; at last | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 解 解 | to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection | |
| 为何 為何 | why | |
| 学会 學會 | to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association | |
| 军队 軍隊 | armed forces; troops | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 招 招 | to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 队伍 隊伍 | ranks; troops; queue; line; procession | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 副 副 | secondary; auxiliary; deputy; assistant; vice-; abbr. for 副词 adverb; classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 集 集 | to gather; to collect; collected works; classifier for sections of a TV series etc: episode | |
| 逼 偪 | to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 | |
| 啥 啥 | dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 特 特 | special; unique; distinguished; especially; unusual; very; abbr. for 斯, tex | |
| 有关 有關 | to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 于 於 | (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 | |
| 与 與 | and; to give; together with | |
| 忍无可忍 忍無可忍 | more than one can bear (idiom); at the end of one's patience; the last straw | Idiom |
| 有机可乘 有機可乘 | to have an opportunity that one can exploit (idiom) | Idiom |
| 旁门左道 旁門左道 | dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion; dissident group | Idiom |
| 儿戏 兒戲 | child's play; trifling matter | Xiehouyu |
| 一路 一路 | the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind | Xiehouyu |
| 破烂 破爛 | worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged; (coll.) rubbish; junk | Colloquialism |
| 俺 俺 | I, me (northern dialect) | |
| 禅 禪 | Chan/Zen | |
| 掌 掌 | palm of hand, sole of foot, paw | |
| 秧 秧 | rice seedlings, young rice plants | |
| 祖 祖 | ancestor, forefather; grandfather | |
| 谶 讖 | prophecy, hint, omen | |
| 乱党 亂黨 | the rebel party | |
| 徒 徒 | disciple | |
| 呐 吶 | modal particle | |
| 禀 稟 | report to, petition | |
| 火器 火器 | firearm | |
| 傻帽 傻帽 | fool; idiot; foolish; stupid | |
| 陀 陀 | steep bank, rough terrain | |
| 公爵 公爵 | duke; dukedom | |
| 谕 諭 | proclaim, instruct; edict | |
| 启 啟 | open; begin, commence; explain | |
| 洞房 洞房 | secret inner room; bridal room | |
| 骂人 罵人 | to swear or curse (at people); to scold or yell at someone |