The Duel

The Duel 2000

juézhàn jīn zhī diān

The sword saint requests a duel with god of sword at the apex of the forbidden city to determine the worlds best. As the date of the duel nears troubles befall the imperial town until everything is revealed at the climactic fight.

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4.23 Intermediate Director Andrew Lau Wai-Keung IMDb 5.8

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Vocabulary

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zhī hòu after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then HSK 4
dān xīn anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious HSK 4
què but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though HSK 4
ér and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) HSK 4
xīn shàng rén sweetheart; one's beloved Xiehouyu ∼HSK 3
méi yòng useless Xiehouyu HSK 3
yào shi (coll.) if Colloquialism HSK 3
shū to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password) Colloquialism HSK 3
xuè blood; colloquial pr. [xiě] Colloquialism HSK 3
nèi Danei, a district in Tainan, Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
lóng Helong, county-level city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Proper Noun ∼HSK 3
xié to harmonize, to rhyme; to unite; (borrowed for) leaf ∼HSK 3
Táng Tang dynasty; Chinese ∼HSK 3
gàn what are you doing?; whatever for?; why on earth? ∼HSK 3
shū uncle; father's younger brother; husband's younger brother; Taiwan pr. [shu2] ∼HSK 3
zǒng guǎn to be in charge of (a major area of responsibility); person in charge; manager; (old) butler (of a rich family); chief steward ∼HSK 3
used in transliteration ∼HSK 3
shí eat; meal; food; KangXi radical number 184 ∼HSK 3
recklessly, foolishly; wildly ∼HSK 3
zhāng zuǐ to open one's mouth (to speak, esp. to make a request); to gape ∼HSK 3
àn niǔ to push a button; button (one that can be pressed to trigger an action) ∼HSK 3
shī lose; make mistake, neglect ∼HSK 3
rén unmanned; uninhabited ∼HSK 3
lìng another; the other ∼HSK 3
xiāng hǎo to be intimate; close friend; paramour ∼HSK 3
name of warring state; surname ∼HSK 3
shū gěi to lose to (sb); to be outdone by ∼HSK 3
luàn jiǎng to talk nonsense; nonsense! ∼HSK 3
kōng kōng empty; vacuous; nothing; vacant; in vain; all for nothing; air-to-air (missile) ∼HSK 3
zhēn xiāng awesome (expression of approval used hypocritically after bitching about the exact same thing earlier) (neologism c. 2014) ∼HSK 3
wèi taste, smell, odor; delicacy ∼HSK 3
to unite ∼HSK 3
luàn shuō to talk drivel; to make irresponsible remarks ∼HSK 3
zuì xíng crime; offense ∼HSK 3
lián lei to implicate; to get (sb) into trouble; also pr. [lian2lei3] or [lian2lei4] ∼HSK 3
lǐng jiào much obliged; thank you; to ask advice; (ironically or humorously) to experience; to taste ∼HSK 3
qīn zuǐ to kiss (on the mouth) ∼HSK 3
zhuǎn háng to change profession ∼HSK 3
yào extremely; awfully ∼HSK 3
huó xià qu impossible to make a living ∼HSK 3
yòng guāng out of (supply); spent; exhausted (used up); depleted ∼HSK 3
qián to pay money ∼HSK 3
lǎo old-fashioned; unstylish ∼HSK 3
shàng bān shí jiān working hours; office hours ∼HSK 3
nèi shāng internal injury; disorder of internal organs (due to improper nutrition, overexertion etc) ∼HSK 3
使 使 shǐ chū to use; to exert ∼HSK 3
xīn zhōng in one's eyes; in one's estimation ∼HSK 3
duàn nǎi to wean ∼HSK 3
dāng kōng overhead; up in the sky ∼HSK 3
guǎn no matter if; regardless of; don’t worry about (it, him etc); doesn’t matter ∼HSK 3