Tai-Chi Master 1993
太极张三丰
Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.
Vocabulary
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| 斋 齋 | vegetarian fast | |
| 似 似 | resemble (literary) | |
| 怎么搞的 怎麼搞的 | How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? | |
| 绊 絆 | loop, catch; fetter, shackle | |
| 跤 跤 | stumble, fall down; wrestle | |
| 慈悲 慈悲 | compassion | |
| 我辈 我輩 | (literary) we; us | |
| 习武 習武 | to practice martial arts | |
| 武艺 武藝 | martial arts | |
| 不公 不公 | unjust; unfair | |
| 孽 孼 | evil; son of concubine; ghost | |
| 徒 徒 | disciple | |
| 魔 魔 | demon | |
| 勤 勤 | industrious, diligent, attentive | |
| 小姑 小姑 | father's youngest sister; husband's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
| 欺 欺 | bully, deceive | |
| 眉 眉 | eyebrows; upper margin of book | |
| 乳 乳 | breast, nipples; milk, suckle | |
| 鸽 鴿 | pigeon, dove; Columba species (various) | |
| 闭嘴 閉嘴 | Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴 | |
| 阿弥陀佛 阿彌陀佛 | Amitabha Buddha (also a Buddhist greeting) | |
| 疗伤 療傷 | healing; to heal; to make healthy again | |
| 杀头 殺頭 | to behead | |
| 叉烧 叉燒 | char siu; barbecued pork | |
| 献丑 獻醜 | (used self-deprecatingly, e.g. when asked to sing a song) to put one's artistic incompetence on display | |
| 胸口 胸口 | chest | |
| 擅 擅 | monopolize; claim; arbitrarily; to dare | |
| 军备 軍備 | (military) arms; armaments | |
| 朝庭 朝庭 | variant of | |
| 不忍 不忍 | cannot bear to | |
| 弟兄 弟兄 | brothers | |
| 斩首 斬首 | to behead; to decapitate | |
| 拦住 攔住 | to stop; to bar the way | |
| 发酒疯 發酒瘋 | to get wildly drunk | |
| 大军 大軍 | army; main forces | |
| 佬 佬 | (Cant.) man, person; mature | |
| 淫 淫 | obscene, licentious, lewd | |
| 嘴硬 嘴硬 | reluctant to admit a mistake | |
| 军心 軍心 | (military) troop morale; (fig.) team morale | |
| 将士 將士 | officers and soldiers | |
| 召 召 | imperial decree; summon | |
| 枯 枯 | dried out, withered, decayed | |
| 前尘 前塵 | the past; impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism) | |
| 恒 恆 | constant, regular, persistent | |
| 甚 甚 | what (literary, = 什么) | |
| 疾 疾 | illness, disease, sickness; to hate | |
| 惧 懼 | fear, be afraid of, dread | |
| 弹回 彈回 | to rebound | |
| 发疯 發瘋 | to go mad; to go crazy; to lose one's mind | |
| 粮行 糧行 | grain retailer (in former times) |