Tai-Chi Master

Tai-Chi Master 1993

tài zhāngsān fēng

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.

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Vocabulary

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zhāi vegetarian fast ∼HSK 5
resemble (literary) ∼HSK 5
zěn me gǎo de How did it happen?; What's wrong?; What went wrong?; What's up? ∼HSK 5
bàn loop, catch; fetter, shackle ∼HSK 5
jiāo stumble, fall down; wrestle ∼HSK 5
bēi compassion ∼HSK 5
bèi (literary) we; us ∼HSK 5
to practice martial arts ∼HSK 5
martial arts ∼HSK 5
gōng unjust; unfair ∼HSK 5
niè evil; son of concubine; ghost ∼HSK 5
disciple ∼HSK 5
demon ∼HSK 5
qín industrious, diligent, attentive ∼HSK 5
xiǎo father's youngest sister; husband's younger sister; sister-in-law ∼HSK 5
bully, deceive ∼HSK 5
méi eyebrows; upper margin of book ∼HSK 5
breast, nipples; milk, suckle ∼HSK 5
鴿 pigeon, dove; Columba species (various) ∼HSK 5
zuǐ Shut up!; same as 閉上嘴巴|闭上嘴巴 ∼HSK 5
Ēmítuó Amitabha Buddha (also a Buddhist greeting) ∼HSK 5
liáo shāng healing; to heal; to make healthy again ∼HSK 5
shā tóu to behead ∼HSK 5
chā shāo char siu; barbecued pork ∼HSK 5
xiàn chǒu (used self-deprecatingly, e.g. when asked to sing a song) to put one's artistic incompetence on display ∼HSK 5
xiōng kǒu chest ∼HSK 5
shàn monopolize; claim; arbitrarily; to dare ∼HSK 5
jūn bèi (military) arms; armaments ∼HSK 5
cháo tíng variant of ∼HSK 5
rěn cannot bear to ∼HSK 5
xiong brothers ∼HSK 5
zhǎn shǒu to behead; to decapitate ∼HSK 5
lán zhù to stop; to bar the way ∼HSK 5
jiǔ fēng to get wildly drunk ∼HSK 5
jūn army; main forces ∼HSK 5
lǎo (Cant.) man, person; mature ∼HSK 5
yín obscene, licentious, lewd ∼HSK 5
zuǐ yìng reluctant to admit a mistake ∼HSK 5
jūn xīn (military) troop morale; (fig.) team morale ∼HSK 5
jiàng shì officers and soldiers ∼HSK 5
Shào imperial decree; summon ∼HSK 5
dried out, withered, decayed ∼HSK 5
qián chén the past; impurity contracted previously (in the sentient world) (Buddhism) ∼HSK 5
Héng constant, regular, persistent ∼HSK 5
shèn what (literary, = 什么) ∼HSK 5
illness, disease, sickness; to hate ∼HSK 5
fear, be afraid of, dread ∼HSK 5
tán huí to rebound ∼HSK 5
fēng to go mad; to go crazy; to lose one's mind ∼HSK 5
liáng háng grain retailer (in former times) ∼HSK 5