The Blue Kite

The Blue Kite 1994

lán fēngzhēng

A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Vocabulary

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cuò mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake HSK 3
chuán to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity) HSK 3
broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of HSK 3
zhèng shì formal; official HSK 3
luàn in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary HSK 3
yào necessary; essential; indispensable; required HSK 3
huǒ fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86 HSK 3
nán dào don't tell me ...; could it be that...? HSK 3
xiāng dāng equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite HSK 3
tiào to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate HSK 3
rén lèi humanity; human race; mankind HSK 3
each; every HSK 3
qīn mother; also pr. [mǔ qin] HSK 3
jié hūn to marry; to get married HSK 3
shì jiàn event; happening; incident HSK 3
a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process; situation HSK 3
rén mín the people HSK 3
huì meeting; conference HSK 3
gǎn to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture HSK 3
to be in charge of; to take responsibility for; to be to blame; conscientious HSK 3
tán to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss HSK 3
xià to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw HSK 3
jīn gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 HSK 3
sense; meaning; significance; importance HSK 3
zhuā to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch HSK 3
xìng nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence HSK 3
yòng to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize HSK 3
hǎo hǎo well; carefully; nicely; properly HSK 3
dào finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last HSK 3
jiǎn dān simple; not complicated HSK 3
lìng wài additional; in addition; besides; separate; other; moreover; furthermore HSK 3
shēng mìng life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature HSK 3
bào gào to inform; to report; to make known; report; speech; talk; lecture HSK 3
àn to press; to push; to leave aside or shelve; to control; to restrain; to keep one's hand on; to check or refer to; according to; in the light of; (of an editor or author) to make a comment HSK 3
rén yuán staff; crew; personnel HSK 3
rèn wu mission; assignment; task; duty; role HSK 3
què dìng definite; certain; fixed; to fix (on sth); to determine; to be sure; to ensure; to make certain; to ascertain; to clinch; to recognize; to confirm; OK (on computer dialog box) HSK 3
dài biǎo representative; delegate; to represent; to stand for; on behalf of; in the name of HSK 3
rán sudden; abrupt; unexpected HSK 3
area; region; district; small; distinguish HSK 3
chú le besides; apart from (... also...); in addition to; except (for) HSK 3
xià lai to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders) HSK 3
chéng shì city; town HSK 3
gēn běn fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all HSK 3
le extremely; exceedingly HSK 3
huó to live; alive; living; work; workmanship HSK 3
zhù to take note of; to pay attention to HSK 3
jiàng stubborn; unyielding HSK 3
zhuǎi see 转文 HSK 3
jiě jué to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc) HSK 3