Unknown Pleasures

Unknown Pleasures 2002

rén xiāoyáo

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.

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3.67 Beginner Director Jia Zhangke 🍅 61%

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調 diào chá investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll HSK 3
zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this HSK 3
dāng rán only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt HSK 3
lián to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) HSK 3
měi each; every HSK 3
zǒng general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc HSK 3
zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes HSK 3
wèi le for; for the purpose of; in order to HSK 3
shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out HSK 3
wàng to hope; a hope; a wish HSK 3
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned HSK 3
bìng and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge 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
shàng liǎn to turn red in the face (while drinking); to become smug (when complimented) Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
wán shì to be finished (with sth) Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
nán kàn ugly; unsightly Xiehouyu HSK 2
gòu enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out Colloquialism 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
lán Ukraine Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
shěng zhǎng governor of a province Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
tǐng hǎo very good HSK 2
fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though ∼HSK 2
cāo conduct, run, control, manage ∼HSK 2
jiāo qián to pay up; to shell out; to hand over the money to cover sth ∼HSK 2
zhī dào le OK!; Got it! ∼HSK 2
Liú surname; kill, destroy ∼HSK 2
jiǔ to drink (alcohol) ∼HSK 2
àn table, bench; legal case ∼HSK 2
tīng dǒng to understand (on hearing); to catch (what is spoken) ∼HSK 2
jiè qián to borrow money; to lend money ∼HSK 2
must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot ∼HSK 2
shàng suàn to be worthwhile; to be worth it ∼HSK 2
dài not to have; without; un- ∼HSK 2
huàn qián to change money; to sell ∼HSK 2
tóu zi boss; gang leader ∼HSK 2
Wéi maintain, preserve, safeguard ∼HSK 2
滿 mǎn shēn covered all over ∼HSK 2
xiǎng tōng to figure out; to realize; to become convinced; to come round (to an idea); to get over it ∼HSK 2
jiàn guó to found a country; nation-building; the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949 ∼HSK 2
yàng different; distinctive; unlike ∼HSK 2
jiè forerunner, herald, harbinger; to lie between; sea shell; to wear armor ∼HSK 2
zan at that time (old) ∼HSK 2
zǒu xiàng direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology); inclination; trend; to move towards; to head for ∼HSK 2
kǎo wán to finish an exam ∼HSK 2
biàn one time (all the way through); once through ∼HSK 2
Fáng surname Fang ∼HSK 2
shì li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters) ∼HSK 2