Vermilion Door 1965
红伶泪
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.
Vocabulary
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| 田 田 | field; farm | |
| 肯 肎 | to agree; to consent; to be willing to | |
| 毁 毀 | to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander | |
| 煮 煑 | to cook; to boil | |
| 原谅 原諒 | to excuse; to forgive; to pardon | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 再说 再說 | to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides | |
| 赚 賺 | to earn; to make a profit | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 理 理 | texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 镇 鎮 | to press down; to calm; to subdue; to suppress; to guard; garrison; small town; to cool or chill (food or drinks) | |
| 英雄 英雄 | hero | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 逼 偪 | to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄 | |
| 清 清 | (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts) | |
| 据 㨿 | used in 据 | |
| 不再 不再 | no more; no longer | |
| 入 入 | to enter; to go into; to join; to become a member of; to confirm or agree with; abbr. for 入声 | |
| 如 如 | as; as if; such as | |
| 啦 啦 | (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat | |
| 偷偷摸摸 偷偷摸摸 | (idiom) surreptitious; sneaky | Idiom |
| 调虎离山 調虎離山 | to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom); to lure an enemy away from his territory | Idiom |
| 血口喷人 血口噴人 | to spit blood (idiom); venomous slander; malicious attacks | Idiom |
| 多管闲事 多管閒事 | meddling in other people's business | Xiehouyu |
| 杂种 雜種 | hybrid; mixed breed; bastard; son of a bitch | Xiehouyu |
| 混蛋 混蛋 | scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch | Xiehouyu |
| 为难 為難 | to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage) | Xiehouyu |
| 臭 臭 | stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition) | Xiehouyu |
| 姑妈 姑媽 | (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt | Colloquialism |
| 吐血 吐血 | to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc) | Colloquialism |
| 收拾 收拾 | to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb | Colloquialism |
| 甚 甚 | what (literary, = 什么) | |
| 么 麼 | interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) | |
| 俺 俺 | I, me (northern dialect) | |
| 琦 琦 | gem, precious stone, jade | |
| 阮 阮 | ancient musical instrument: surname | |
| 兆 兆 | omen; million; mega; also trillion. China = million; Japan and Taiwan = trillion | |
| 唱戏 唱戲 | to perform in opera | |
| 祺 祺 | good luck, good fortune | |
| 立正 立正 | to stand straight; attention! (order to troops) | |
| 婶 嬸 | wife of father's younger brother | |
| 身孕 身孕 | pregnancy; pregnant | |
| 稍息 稍息 | (military) Stand at ease! | |
| 骨肉 骨肉 | blood relation; kin; one's flesh and blood | |
| 彪 彪 | tiger; tiger stripes; tiger-like | |
| 扔掉 扔掉 | to throw away; to throw out | |
| 看戏 看戲 | to watch a play; to watch passively (i.e. from the sidelines, from the crowd) |