Once Upon a Bite

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Taking Root

S1E2 · 落地生根 luòdìshēnggēn

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Vocabulary

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为 為 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
可以 可以 kě yǐ can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good HSK 2
自己 自己 zì jǐ oneself; one's own HSK 2
让 讓 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
啊 啊 ā interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! HSK 2
干 乹 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
不会 不會 bù 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
菜 菜 cài dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor Colloquialism HSK 1
山 山 shān mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on Colloquialism HSK 1
块 塊 kuài lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units Colloquialism HSK 1
澳门 澳門 Ào mén Macao or Macau, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
中国人 中國人 Zhōng guó rén Chinese person Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
日本 日本 Rì běn Japan Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
淮北 淮北 Huái běi Huaibei, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
日本人 日本人 Rì běn rén Japanese person or people Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
粤语 粵語 Yuè yǔ Cantonese language Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
香港 香港 Xiāng gǎng Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
上海 上海 Shàng hǎi Shanghai municipality Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
上都 上都 Shàng dū Shangdu, also known as Xanadu, summer capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
广东 廣東 Guǎng dōng Guangdong Province, capital Guangzhou Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
六四 六四 Liù Sì refers to Tiananmen incident of 4th June 1989 Proper Noun ∼HSK 1
一个 一個 yīge a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) ∼HSK 1
不到 不到 bù dào not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than ∼HSK 1
这种 這種 zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
一次 一次 yī cì first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) ∼HSK 1
这是 這是 zhè shì this is; this is the ... ∼HSK 1
仆人 僕人 pú rén servant ∼HSK 1
到了 到了 dào liǎo at last; finally; in the end ∼HSK 1
一个半 一個半 yī ge bàn one and a half ∼HSK 1
中的 中的 zhòng dì to hit the target; (fig.) to hit the nail on the head ∼HSK 1
年中 年中 nián zhōng within the year; in the middle of the year; mid-year ∼HSK 1
这个 這個 zhège (pronoun) this; (adjective) this ∼HSK 1
碱水 鹼水 jiǎn shuǐ lye water; alkaline water (used in cooking) ∼HSK 1
每天 每天 měi tiān every day ∼HSK 1
半个 半個 bàn ge half of sth ∼HSK 1
一口 一口 yī kǒu readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite ∼HSK 1
每个 每個 měi gè each; every ∼HSK 1
不是 不是 bù shì no; is not; not ∼HSK 1
候 候 hòu wait; expect; visit; greet ∼HSK 1
不能 不能 bù néng cannot; must not; should not ∼HSK 1
百年 百年 bǎi nián hundred years; century; lifetime ∼HSK 1
对日 對日 duì Rì (policy etc) towards Japan ∼HSK 1
本影 本影 běn yǐng umbra ∼HSK 1
最多 最多 zuì duō at most; maximum; greatest (amount); maximal ∼HSK 1
山葵 山葵 shān kuí wasabi ∼HSK 1
远行 遠行 yuǎn xíng a long journey; far from home ∼HSK 1
从来没有 從來沒有 cóng lái méi yǒu there has never been; has never had; (before a verb) has never ∼HSK 1
四十 四十 sì shí forty; 40 ∼HSK 1
老爸 老爸 lǎo bà father; dad ∼HSK 1
想出 想出 xiǎng chū to figure out; to work out (a solution etc); to think up; to come up with (an idea etc) ∼HSK 1