The Emperor's Shadow

The Emperor's Shadow 1996

秦颂 qín sòng

Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.

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帅 帥 shuài (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) Colloquialism HSK 4
俩 倆 liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some Colloquialism HSK 4
抱 抱 bào to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely Colloquialism HSK 4
嬴政 嬴政 Yíng Zhèng Ying Zheng (260-210 BC), personal name of the first emperor Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
秦军 秦軍 Qín jūn the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
荆轲 荊軻 Jīng Kē Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
李斯 李斯 Lǐ Sī Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
咸阳 咸陽 Xián yáng Xianyang, prefecture-level city in Shaanxi Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
永昌 永昌 Yǒng chāng Yongchang county in Jinchang, Gansu; ancient prefecture in Yunnan, modern Baoshan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
巴蜀 巴蜀 Bā shǔ Sichuan; originally two provinces of Qin and Han Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
城池 城池 chéng chí city Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
一战 一戰 Yī zhàn World War I (1914-1918) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
江河 江河 Jiāng Hé Yangtze and Yellow rivers Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
铜鼓 銅鼓 Tóng gǔ Tonggu county in Yichun 宜春, Jiangxi Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
匈奴 匈奴 Xiōng nú Xiongnu, a people of the Eastern Steppe who created an empire that flourished around the time of the Qin and Han dynasties Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
没想到 沒想到 méi xiǎng dào didn't expect HSK 4
大王 大王 dà wáng king; magnate; person having expert skill in something ∼HSK 4
秦 秦 Qín surname Qin; Qin dynasty (221-207 BC) of the first emperor; short name for ∼HSK 4
童男 童男 tóng nán virgin male ∼HSK 4
荡 蕩 dàng pond, pool; wash away, cleanse ∼HSK 4
律法 律法 lǜ fǎ laws and decrees ∼HSK 4
童女 童女 tóng nǚ virgin female ∼HSK 4
登基 登基 dēng jī to ascend the throne ∼HSK 4
发兵 發兵 fā bīng to dispatch an army; to send troops ∼HSK 4
律 律 Lǜ statute, principle, regulation ∼HSK 4
宣 宣 Xuān declare, announce, proclaim ∼HSK 4
仪 儀 yí ceremony, rites gifts; admire ∼HSK 4
大法官 大法官 dà fǎ guān grand justice; high court justice; supreme court justice ∼HSK 4
先王 先王 xiān wáng former sovereigns ∼HSK 4
聚合 聚合 jù hé to come together (to form sth); to assemble together; (chemistry) to polymerize ∼HSK 4
铁定 鐵定 tiě dìng unalterable; certainly; definitely ∼HSK 4
私 私 sī private, personal; secret ∼HSK 4
谢 謝 Xiè thank ∼HSK 4
泽 澤 zé marsh, swamp; grace, brilliance ∼HSK 4
而后 而後 ér hòu after that; then ∼HSK 4
公元前 公元前 gōng yuán qián BCE (before the Common Era); BC (before Christ) ∼HSK 4
王孙 王孫 wáng sūn children of the nobility ∼HSK 4
咱俩 咱倆 zán liǎ the two of us ∼HSK 4
死定 死定 sǐ dìng to be screwed; to be toast ∼HSK 4
奋 奮 fèn strive, exert effort; arouse ∼HSK 4
首级 首級 shǒu jí severed head ∼HSK 4
行刺 行刺 xíng cì to assassinate ∼HSK 4
卷轴 卷軸 juàn zhóu scroll (book or painting) ∼HSK 4
何为 何為 hé wéi what is; (old) what for; (in a rhetorical question) it's no use ∼HSK 4
禁 禁 jīn restrict, prohibit, forbid ∼HSK 4
武 武 Wǔ military; martial, warlike ∼HSK 4
竹 竹 zhú bamboo; flute; KangXi radical 118 ∼HSK 4
互 互 hù mutually, reciprocally ∼HSK 4
若是 若是 ruò shì if ∼HSK 4
王家 王家 wáng jiā princely ∼HSK 4