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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shēng sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds HSK 5
gǎo to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of HSK 5
(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very HSK 5
liáo tiān to chat; to gossip Xiehouyu HSK 4
bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly Xiehouyu HSK 4
shāo to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head Colloquialism HSK 4
liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some Colloquialism HSK 4
Zhuāng Zhuangzi (369-286 BC), Daoist author Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Sūn kōng Sun Wukong Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Yuè Fēi Yue Fei (1103-1142), Song dynasty patriot and general Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Tài yuán Taiyuan, prefecture-level city and capital of Shanxi Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
西 西 níng Xining, prefecture-level city and capital of Qinghai Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Táng Tài zōng Emperor Taizong of Tang, reign name of second Tang emperor Li Shimin (599-649), reigned 626-649 Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Jade Emperor Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
lún gōng Falun Gong (Chinese spiritual movement founded in 1992, regarded as a cult by the PRC government) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Líng shuǐ Lingshui Lizu Autonomous County, Hainan; abbr. for Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Hóng Hongqi district of Xinxiang city, Henan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
tóng Datong, prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province; Datong or Tatung Township in Yilan County, Taiwan; Datong or Tatung District of Taipei City, Taiwan; Datong District of Daqing City, Heilongjiang; (Confucianism) Great Harmony (concept of an ideal society) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Yán píng Yanping district of Nanping city Fujian; Yanping township in Taitung County, southeast Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Táng rén Jiē Chinatown Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
ān Wu'an, county-level city in Handan, Hebei Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Qiáo tall, lofty; proud, stately ∼HSK 4
military; martial, warlike ∼HSK 4
help, aid, relieve; ferry, cross ∼HSK 4
dāng bīng to serve in the army; to be a soldier ∼HSK 4
huǐ repent, show remorse, regret ∼HSK 4
dàn thin; light; flagging; faint ∼HSK 4
yǒu zhì ambitious ∼HSK 4
shǒu zhǎng senior official ∼HSK 4
tǎng xià to lie down ∼HSK 4
zán liǎ the two of us ∼HSK 4
zhī know ∼HSK 4
fèn strive, exert effort; arouse ∼HSK 4
wán to play fast and loose with the law; to game the system; (leisure) rules of the game; way of doing an activity; (tourism) way of experiencing a place ∼HSK 4
xìng huì nice to meet you ∼HSK 4
Xiāng mutually ∼HSK 4
jié le that's that; that's it; that will do ∼HSK 4
màn diǎn rén slow down a bit ∼HSK 4
jiǎn dān not simple; rather complicated; remarkable; marvelous ∼HSK 4
fén self-immolation ∼HSK 4
bu that's just the way it is; exactly! ∼HSK 4
baby; doll; pretty girl ∼HSK 4
chuǎng to intrude; to charge in; to gate-crash ∼HSK 4
shāo shuǐ to heat water; to boil water ∼HSK 4
dìng diǎn to determine a location; designated; appointed; specific; fixed (time); fixed point (geometry); fixed-point (number) ∼HSK 4
shén me rén what kind of person ∼HSK 4
meaning, intent ∼HSK 4
chōu xuè to take blood; to draw blood (e.g. for a test) ∼HSK 4
sàn huì to disperse a meeting; to adjourn; finished ∼HSK 4
sǎo huáng campaign against pornography ∼HSK 4