The Guillotines

The Guillotines 2012

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In the time of the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor Yongzheng created a secret army known as the Guillotines. It was the job of the Guillotines to protect the Emperor by killing anyone who posed a threat to him or his rule. After 348 successful missions to eliminate their target, the 349th assignment proves to be their last.

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4.23 Intermediate Director Andrew Lau Wai-Keung 🍅 14%

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ràng to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) HSK 2
míng bái (idiom) obscure; dubious; shady Idiom ∼HSK 1
duì bu I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint Xiehouyu HSK 1
gān dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder Xiehouyu HSK 1
huì improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
kàn kan to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhè bu (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
shi (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hǎo bu hǎo (coll.) all right?; OK? Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
ba (coll.) father; dad Colloquialism HSK 1
(coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 1
(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) Colloquialism HSK 1
zháo to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in Colloquialism HSK 1
Hàn rén Han Chinese person or people Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Tiān zhú the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
yuè August; eighth month (of the lunar year) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Yōng zhèng Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
西 西 mén two-character surname Ximen Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
ge that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler ∼HSK 1
tiān huā smallpox; ceiling; stamen of corn; (old) snow; (dialect) sesame oil ∼HSK 1
zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
tiān that day; the other day ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
le no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) ∼HSK 1
rén those on our side; ourselves; one's own people; one of us ∼HSK 1
shí sān thirteen; 13 ∼HSK 1
zhè shì 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that ∼HSK 1
shí fifteen; 15 ∼HSK 1
the character 8 or 八; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling ∼HSK 1
zěn me huí shì what's the matter?; what's going on?; how could that be?; how did that come about?; what's it all about? ∼HSK 1
xiǎng qi lai to remember; to recall ∼HSK 1
duì le Correct!; Oh, that's right,... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention); Oh, by the way,... ∼HSK 1
zhōng therein; in this ∼HSK 1
rén lit. that person; fig. the person you have been looking for; Mr Right; the girl of one's dreams ∼HSK 1
guì zi shǒu executioner; headsman; slaughterer; fig. indiscriminate murderer ∼HSK 1
huì huì (posing a question: whether sb, something) can or cannot?; is able to or not ∼HSK 1
gēn zhe to follow after; immediately afterwards ∼HSK 1
zhù (verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc); repeatedly; continuously; constantly ∼HSK 1
bāo capsule (containing medicine); husk (of corn) ∼HSK 1
fàng kāi to let go; to release ∼HSK 1
(slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! ∼HSK 1
Shī teacher, master, specialist ∼HSK 1
zài wài outer; excluded ∼HSK 1
diǎn a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dia ∼HSK 1
may not ∼HSK 1
néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
Shāng commerce, business, trade ∼HSK 1