The Monkey King

The Monkey King 2014

西 yóu zhī nàotiāngōng

Sun Wukong is a monkey born from a heavenly stone who acquires supernatural powers. After rebelling against heaven and being imprisoned under a mountain for 500 years, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to India. Thus, according to legend, Buddhism is brought to ancient China.

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4.68 Intermediate Director Soi Cheang IMDb 4.9

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kāi shǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial HSK 3
yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs HSK 3
shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period 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
dǐng dǐng míng famous; celebrated Idiom ∼HSK 2
xià liú lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene Xiehouyu ∼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
Dōng Hǎi East China Sea; East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Nán Hǎi South China Sea Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
西 西 Hǎi Yellow Sea (Korean term) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Běi Hǎi North Sea (in Europe); historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal, Russia Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Wàn nián Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
Duō wén tiān Vaisravana (one of the Heavenly Kings) Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
tǐng hǎo very good HSK 2
jiànguò seen HSK 2
shēn body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158 ∼HSK 2
qiān nián millennium ∼HSK 2
bodhi (Sanskrit); enlightenment (Buddhism) ∼HSK 2
continually; without a break; ceaselessly ∼HSK 2
zhǐ 一: one; a, an; alone · 只: only, just, simply ∼HSK 2
shù art, skill, special feat; method, technique ∼HSK 2
zhù help, aid, assist ∼HSK 2
zhàn war, fighting, battle ∼HSK 2
yàng different; distinctive; unlike ∼HSK 2
lián connect, join; associate, ally ∼HSK 2
cháng nián all the year round ∼HSK 2
zhàn war; to wage war ∼HSK 2
yǎn jiàn to see with one's own eyes; very soon ∼HSK 2
wàn qiān myriad; multitudinous; multifarious ∼HSK 2
suǒ wéi what one does; doings ∼HSK 2
yòu lái le Here we go again. ∼HSK 2
jiē zhù to catch (sth thrown etc); to receive (sth given); to accept ∼HSK 2
míng to name; to be named; to christen; to seek fame ∼HSK 2
穿 穿 shēn chuān to wear (a garment) ∼HSK 2
ràng kāi to get out of the way; to step aside ∼HSK 2
chū to vent one's anger; to breathe out; to exhale ∼HSK 2
dào tóu to the end (of); at the end of; in the end; to come to an end ∼HSK 2
zàng five viscera of TCM, namely: heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys ∼HSK 2
yóu dēng oil lamp ∼HSK 2
dēng xīn variant of ∼HSK 2
fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
bǎi wàn million ∼HSK 2
chī bǎo to eat one's fill ∼HSK 2
yǎng to raise (a child or animal) ∼HSK 2
jiè gěi to lend to sb ∼HSK 2
cāo conduct, run, control, manage ∼HSK 2
yòng wán used up; finished ∼HSK 2
shuō huà suàn huà to do as promised; to be as good as one's word; to honor one's word; to mean what one says ∼HSK 2