Vermilion Door

Vermilion Door 1965

hóng líng lèi

The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself between them, has been a favorite with Chinese audiences for decades.

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4.0 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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jīng already HSK 2
to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished HSK 2
wéi as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice) HSK 2
can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good HSK 2
oneself; one's own HSK 2
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
ā interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! HSK 2
duō xiè many thanks; thanks a lot Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
lǎo máo bìng chronic illness; old weakness; chronic problem Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
liǎo at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming Xiehouyu ∼HSK 1
méi guān xi it doesn't matter Xiehouyu 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
kuài a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as) aspect; area; dimension (Example: "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xiǎo de (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
jīn r (coll.) today Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhè bu (coll.) As a matter of fact,... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhēn shi indeed; truly; (coll.) (used to express disapproval, annoyance etc) Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
yǒu bìng to be ill; (coll.) to be not right in the head Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
míng r (coll.) tomorrow; one of these days; some day Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
xiǎo liǎng kǒu (coll.) young married couple Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
shi (coll.) of course; naturally; indeed Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
hǎo bu hǎo (coll.) all right?; OK? Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zuó r (coll.) yesterday Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
zhè huì r (coll.) now; this moment; also pr. [zhè huǐ r] Colloquialism ∼HSK 1
ye (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather Colloquialism HSK 1
ba (coll.) father; dad Colloquialism HSK 1
kuài lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units Colloquialism HSK 1
huā flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful 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
Shàng hǎi Shanghai municipality Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
Sān guó Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in Chinese history; any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla in 658 Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
èr second brother ∼HSK 1
shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
(slang) what the...!; oh my god!; that's insane! ∼HSK 1
ge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
zhè shì this is; this is the ... ∼HSK 1
rén son, child; KangXi radical 10 ∼HSK 1
hǎo no good ∼HSK 1
yǒu le I've got a solution!; to have a bun in the oven ∼HSK 1
ge a few; several; how many ∼HSK 1
zěn me le What's up?; What's going on?; What happened? ∼HSK 1
hǎo hello; hi ∼HSK 1
shì de yes, that's right; variant of ∼HSK 1
xiǎng unexpectedly; to one's surprise ∼HSK 1