Candle in the Tomb: The Worm Valley
Whole-title review
Season 1 — Candle in the Tomb: The Worm Valley
鬼吹灯之云南虫谷
Vocabulary
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| 哒 噠 | a sound made to get a horse to move forward | |
| 點 點 | dot, speck, spot; point, degree | |
| 颠 顛 | top, peak, summit; upset | |
| 阻 阻 | impede, hinder, obstruct; oppose | |
| 笼 籠 | cage; cage-like basket | |
| 小姑 小姑 | father's youngest sister; husband's younger sister; sister-in-law | |
| 碰壁 碰壁 | to hit a wall; (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face | |
| 蕾 蕾 | buds, unopened flowers | |
| 蜇 蜇 | jellyfish | |
| 娇 嬌 | seductive and loveable; tender | |
| 贫 貧 | poor, impoverished, needy | |
| 何 何 | what (literary) | |
| 遭 遭 | encounter, suffer | |
| 瘴 瘴 | malaria pestilential vapors | |
| 雀 雀 | sparrow | |
| 悲 悲 | sorrow, grief; sorry, sad | |
| 么 麼 | interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) | |
| 莫 莫 | do not (literary) | |
| 弟兄 弟兄 | brothers | |
| 拙 拙 | stupid, clumsy, crude; convention | |
| 擅 擅 | monopolize; claim; arbitrarily; to dare | |
| 何尝 何嘗 | (rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that... | |
| 虐 虐 | cruel, harsh, oppressive | |
| 惧 懼 | fear, be afraid of, dread | |
| 毒气 毒氣 | poison gas; toxic gas; manifestation of passion, anger etc (Buddhism) | |
| 幻 幻 | illusion, fantasy, mirage | |
| 乌鸦 烏鴉 | crow; raven | |
| 尘 塵 | dust; dirt; earth | |
| 狐狸 狐狸 | fox; fig. sly and treacherous person | |
| 骨子 骨子 | ribs; frame | |
| 毒性 毒性 | toxicity | |
| 哀 哀 | sad, mournful, pitiful; pity | |
| 大戏 大戲 | large-scale Chinese opera; Beijing opera; major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc) | |
| 寨 寨 | stockade, stronghold, outpost; brothel | |
| 腻 膩 | greasy, oily, dirty; smooth | |
| 掩 掩 | to cover (with the hand); shut, conceal; ambush | |
| 兆 兆 | omen; million; mega; also trillion. China = million; Japan and Taiwan = trillion | |
| 真棒 真棒 | super!; really great; wonderful | |
| 山神 山神 | mountain god | |
| 速 速 | fast | |
| 崇 崇 | esteem, honor, revere, venerate | |
| 脂 脂 | fat, grease, lard; grease | |
| 贯 貫 | a string of 1000 coins; to go through | |
| 伐 伐 | cut down, subjugate, attack | |
| 冯 馮 | surname; gallop; by dint of | |
| 待人 待人 | to treat people (politely, harshly etc) | |
| 我操 我操 | (substitute for) fuck; WTF | |
| 幻听 幻聽 | auditory hallucination | |
| 庚 庚 | 7th heavenly stem | |
| 歹 歹 | bad, vicious, depraved, wicked |