The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman 2011

dāo jiànxiào

A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.

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4.76 Intermediate Director Wuershan 🍅 46%

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Vocabulary

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rèn responsibility; blame; duty HSK 3
rán nature; natural; naturally HSK 3
suí to follow; to comply with; varying according to...; to allow; subsequently HSK 3
gǎn to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture HSK 3
father and mother; parents HSK 3
què shí indeed; really; reliable; real; true 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
qīn father; also pr. [fù qin] HSK 3
guāng light; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered HSK 3
zhuā to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch HSK 3
hǎo hǎo well; carefully; nicely; properly HSK 3
pài clique; school; group; faction; to dispatch; to send; to assign; to appoint; pi (Greek letter Ππ); the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926; (loanword) pie HSK 3
yīn thus; consequently; as a result HSK 3
lián connection; contact; relation; to get in touch with; to integrate; to link; to touch HSK 3
miàn inside; interior; also pr. [lǐ mian] HSK 3
zǒng shì always HSK 3
rén individual; personal; oneself 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
zhōng at last; in the end; finally; eventually HSK 3
gēn běn fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all HSK 3
huó to live; alive; living; work; workmanship HSK 3
zhuǎi see 转文 HSK 3
dāng rán only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt HSK 3
lián to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) HSK 3
shí actually; in fact; really 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
how; what way; what 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
yóu to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... HSK 3
already; to stop; then; afterwards HSK 3
xīn heart; mind; intention; center; core 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
kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial 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
bái tóu xié lǎo (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss; until death do us part Idiom ∼HSK 2
hóng xìng chū qiáng lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom); fig. a wife having an illicit lover Idiom ∼HSK 2
jiǎ de bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony 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
kāi xīn to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb Xiehouyu HSK 2
gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out 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
Liù jiǎo Liujiao or Liuchiao Township in Chiayi County, west Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Fēi xuě Flying Snow, a character in "Hero" Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
jiànguò seen HSK 2
shā rén homicide; to murder; to kill (a person) ∼HSK 2
ràng kāi to get out of the way; to step aside ∼HSK 2