The Thousand Faces of Dunjia 2017
奇门遁甲
The world is on the brink of catastrophe in a chaotic age where evil demons roam. In order to keep evil at bay, a mysterious organisation from the pugilist world emerges. A new constable and a young girl with a mysterious past are also drawn into this group, and the group embarks on an incredible adventure.
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Vocabulary
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| 手无缚鸡之力 手無縛雞之力 | lit. lacking the strength even to truss a chicken (saying); fig. weak; unaccustomed to physical work | Idiom |
| 自相残杀 自相殘殺 | to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife | Idiom |
| 命中注定 命中註定 | decreed by fate (idiom); destined; fated | Idiom |
| 开眼界 開眼界 | to broaden one's horizons | Xiehouyu |
| 高手 高手 | expert; past master; dab hand | Xiehouyu |
| 小样 小樣 | galley proof (printing); unimpressive; (coll.) little guy (mild insult also used as an affectionate term) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 蜻蜓 蜻蜓 | dragonfly | |
| 捕快 捕快 | bailiff responsible for catching criminals (in imperial China) | |
| 时辰 時辰 | two-hour period | |
| 印记 印記 | imprint; trace | |
| 不妥 不妥 | not proper; inappropriate | |
| 太祖 太祖 | Great Ancestor (posthumous title, e.g. for the founder of a dynasty) | |
| 神功 神功 | amazing powers; miraculous skill | |
| 苍生 蒼生 | (area where) vegetation grows; the common people | |
| 瞎子 瞎子 | blind person | |
| 封印 封印 | seal (on envelopes) | |
| 上钩 上鉤 | to take the bait | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 无名氏 無名氏 | anonymous person | |
| 谣传 謠傳 | rumor | |
| 捕头 捕頭 | constable | |
| 虚实 虛實 | what is true and what is false; (to get to know) the real situation | |
| 今人 今人 | modern people | |
| 行凶 行兇 | violent crime; to commit a violent act (assault or murder) | |
| 缉拿 緝拿 | to arrest; to seize | |
| 解手 解手 | to relieve oneself (i.e. use the toilet); to solve | |
| 失礼 失禮 | discourteous | |
| 何方 何方 | from where | |
| 娇弱 嬌弱 | delicate | |
| 铜钱 銅錢 | copper coin (round with a square hole in the middle, used in former times in China) | |
| 不妙 不妙 | (of a turn of events) not too encouraging; far from good; anything but reassuring | |
| 地动仪 地動儀 | the world's first seismograph invented by Zhang Heng in 132; abbr. for | |
| 藏身之处 藏身之處 | hiding place; hideout | |
| 外泄 外洩 | to leak (usually secret information) | |
| 宫位 宮位 | house (astrology) | |
| 顺风耳 順風耳 | sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction); fig. a well-informed person | |
| 经脉 經脈 | channel of TCM | |
| 格致 格致 | to study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge; word for Western natural sciences during late Qing | |
| 脾胃 脾胃 | spleen and stomach (digestive organs in TCM); preferences; one's taste (e.g. in literature) | |
| 缓兵之计 緩兵之計 | delaying tactics; stalling; measures to stave off an attack; stratagem to win a respite | |
| 墨镜 墨鏡 | sunglasses | |
| 蚯蚓 蚯蚓 | (zoology) earthworm | |
| 异动 異動 | to shift; to alter; unusual change; abnormal move | |
| 三从四德 三從四德 | Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality, physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功 | |
| 洋洋 洋洋 | vast; impressive; self-satisfied; immensely pleased with oneself | |
| 卖乖 賣乖 | to show off one's cleverness; (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by |