无间道

無間道
Wújiàndào
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Infernal Affairs, the 2002 Hong Kong thriller about a police mole in a triad and a triad mole in the police
  2. 2 playing both sides as a mole

Examples

HSK 5
Tā yìbiān bāng lǎobǎn zuòshì, yìbiān gěi duìshǒu sòng xiāoxi, jiǎnzhí shì zài wán wújiàndào.
He works for the boss while passing information to the rival: he is playing both sides like a mole in a spy film.
HSK 7-9
《 Wújiàndào 》 jiǎng de shì jǐngchá hé hēibāng hùxiāng pài wòdǐ de gùshi.
"Infernal Affairs" tells the story of the police and a gang each planting a mole in the other.

Tips

culture
梁朝伟 plays a policeman who has spent ten years undercover in a triad, and 刘德华 a triad member planted in the police; each is ordered to unmask the other. Martin Scorsese remade it as The Departed (2006), which won the Oscar for Best Picture.
usage
The title comes from Buddhism: 无间地狱, the Avici hell, is the deepest hell, where suffering never pauses. 间 is read jiàn here, "gap", not jiān.

Stroke Order

无 wú
间 jiān
道 dào