HSK 7-9 Vocabulary List with Pinyin
5,595 words from the advanced band, levels 7-9 of HSK 3.0, the nine-level standard for Chinese proficiency, with pinyin and English translation.
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 掉头掉頭 | to turn one's head / to turn round / to turn about | syn | |
| 吊销吊銷 | to suspend (an agreement) / to revoke | syn | |
| 爹 | dad | syn | |
| 跌幅 | decline (in value) / extent of a drop | ||
| 叠疊 | to fold / to fold over in layers / to furl / to layer / to pile up / to repeat / to duplicate | syn | |
| 碟 | dish / plate | syn | |
| 迭起 | continuously arising / to arise repeatedly | syn | |
| 丁 | male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl | syn | |
| 盯 | to watch attentively / to fix one's attention on / to stare at / to gaze at | syn | |
| 叮嘱叮囑 | to warn repeatedly / to urge / to exhort again and again | syn | |
| 钉子釘子 | nail / snag / saboteur | syn | |
| 顶多頂多 | at most / at best | syn | |
| 顶级頂級 | top-notch / first-rate | syn | |
| 顶尖頂尖 | peak / apex / world best / number one / finest (competitors) / top (figures in a certain field) | syn | |
| 钉釘 | to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points / to nail / to pin / to staple / to sew on | syn | |
| 订购訂購 | to place an order / to subscribe | syn | |
| 定金 | down payment / advance payment | ||
| 定居 | to settle (in some city, country etc) / to take up residence | syn | |
| 订立訂立 | to conclude (treaty, contract, agreement etc) / to set up (a rule etc) | syn | |
| 定律 | scientific law (e.g. law of conservation of energy) / (in human affairs) a generalization based on observation (e.g. "power corrupts") | syn | |
| 定论定論 | final conclusion / accepted argument | syn | |
| 定向 | to orientate / directional / directed / orienteering | ||
| 定心丸 | tranquilizer / sth that sets one's mind at ease | ||
| 订阅訂閱 | subscription / to subscribe to | ||
| 定做 | to have something made to order | ||
| 丢脸丟臉 | to lose face / humiliation | syn | |
| 丢弃丟棄 | to discard / to abandon | syn | |
| 丢人丟人 | to lose face | syn | |
| 丢三落四丟三落四 | forgetful / empty-headed | syn | |
| 东奔西走東奔西走 | to run this way and that (idiom) / to rush about busily / to bustle about / to hopscotch / also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠[dong1 pao3 xi1 dian1] | syn | |
| 东道主東道主 | host / official host (e.g. venue for games or a conference) | syn | |
| 东张西望東張西望 | to look in all directions (idiom) / to glance around | syn | |
| 董事 | board member | ||
| 懂事 | to grow beyond the naivete of childhood / to be aware of what is going on in the world / (esp. of a child) sensible / thoughtful / intelligent | syn | |
| 董事会董事會 | board of directors | ||
| 董事长董事長 | chairman of the board of directors | ||
| 动不动動不動 | (typically followed by 就[jiu4]) apt to (lose one's temper, catch a cold etc) / at the drop of a hat | syn | |
| 动荡動蕩 | unrest (social or political) / turmoil / upheaval / commotion | syn | |
| 动感動感 | sense of movement (often in a static work of art) / dynamic / vivid / lifelike | syn | |
| 动工動工 | to start (a building project) | syn | |
| 冻结凍結 | to freeze (water etc) / (fig.) to freeze (assets, prices etc) | syn | |
| 动静動靜 | (detectable) movement / (sign of) activity / movement and stillness | syn | |
| 栋梁棟梁 | ridgepole / ridgepole and beams / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state) | syn | |
| 动脉動脈 | artery | ||
| 动身動身 | to go on a journey / to leave | syn | |
| 动弹動彈 | to budge | syn | |
| 动向動向 | trend / tendency | syn | |
| 洞穴 | cave / cavern | syn | |
| 动摇動搖 | to sway / to waver / to rock / to rattle / to destabilize / to pose a challenge to | syn | |
| 动用動用 | to utilize / to put sth to use | syn | |
| 动员動員 | to mobilize / mobilization / CL:次[ci4] | syn | |
| 兜兠 | old variant of 兜[dou1] | syn | |
| 兜售 | to hawk / to peddle | syn | |
| 抖 | to tremble / to shake out / to reveal / to make it in the world | syn | |
| 陡 | steep / precipitous / abrubtly / suddenly / unexpectedly | syn | |
| 陡峭 | precipitous | syn | |
| 斗鬭 | variant of 鬥|斗[dou4] | syn | |
| 逗留 | to stay for a while / to sojourn | syn | |
| 斗志鬥志 | will to fight / fighting spirit | syn | |
| 豆子 | bean / pea / CL:顆|颗[ke1] | syn | |
| 督促 | to supervise and urge completion of a task / to urge on | syn | |
| 都会都會 | city / metropolis | syn | |
| 独獨 | alone / independent / single / sole / only | syn | |
| 独家獨家 | exclusive | syn | |
| 毒品 | drugs / narcotics / poison | syn | |
| 独身獨身 | unmarried / single / alone | syn | |
| 读物讀物 | reading material | ||
| 独一无二獨一無二 | unique and unmatched (idiom) / unrivalled / nothing compares with it | syn | |
| 赌賭 | to bet / to gamble | syn | |
| 赌博賭博 | to gamble | syn | |
| 堵塞 | to clog up / blockage | syn | |
| 杜绝杜絕 | to put an end to | syn | |
| 端正 | upright / regular / proper / correct | syn | |
| 短暂短暫 | of short duration / brief / momentary | syn | |
| 断定斷定 | to conclude / to determine / to come to a judgment | syn | |
| 断断续续斷斷續續 | intermittent / off and on / discontinuous / stop-go / stammering / disjointed / inarticulate | syn | |
| 断绝斷絕 | to sever / to break off | syn | |
| 断裂斷裂 | fracture / rupture / to break apart | syn | |
| 段落 | phase / time interval / paragraph / (written) passage | syn | |
| 断然斷然 | resolute / definitive / categorically / absolutely | syn | |
| 断章取义斷章取義 | to quote out of context (idiom) | syn | |
| 堆积堆積 | to pile up / to heap / accumulation | syn | |
| 堆砌 | lit. to pile up (bricks) / to pack / fig. to pad out (writing with fancy phrases) / ornate rhetoric | syn | |
| 兑兌 | to cash / to exchange / to add (liquid) / to blend / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing swamp / ☱ | syn | |
| 对岸對岸 | opposite bank (of a body of water) | syn | |
| 对白對白 | dialogue (in a movie or a play) | ||
| 对策對策 | countermeasure for dealing with a situation | syn | |
| 对得起對得起 | not to let sb down / to treat sb fairly / be worthy of | syn | |
| 对付對付 | to handle / to deal with / to tackle / to get by with / to make do / (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb) | syn | |
| 兑换兌換 | to convert / to exchange | syn | |
| 对联對聯 | rhyming couplet / pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway / CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2] | syn | |
| 对流對流 | convection | ||
| 对牛弹琴對牛彈琴 | lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head | syn | |
| 兑现兌現 | (of a check etc) to cash / to honor a commitment | syn | |
| 队形隊形 | formation | ||
| 对弈對弈 | to play go, chess etc | syn | |
| 对照對照 | to contrast / to compare / to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts) / to check | syn | |
| 对症下药對症下藥 | lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom) / fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it / to take appropriate steps | ||
| 对峙對峙 | (of mountains etc) to stand facing each other / (fig.) to confront each other | syn | |
| 敦促 | to press / to urge / to hasten | syn |
The four tones
What the advanced band of HSK 3.0 covers
HSK 3.0 is the revision of the Chinese proficiency test published in March 2021 by China's Ministry of Education and its National Language Commission. It replaces six levels with nine, grouped in three bands: elementary (1 to 3), intermediate (4 to 6) and advanced (7 to 9). The vocabulary of the whole scheme comes to roughly eleven thousand words, against about five thousand at the top of the old six-level system.
The advanced band is one exam, not three. Every candidate sits the same paper, and the score decides whether they are placed at level 7, level 8, level 9 or none of them. It has been running worldwide since November 2022, several years before the lower bands were revised in their turn, and it is taken on a computer only.
The list below is the vocabulary the advanced band adds on top of the first six levels — the words numbered from 5401 upward in the official standard, in the alphabetical order by pinyin that the published list uses. It is more than half of the entire vocabulary of the nine-level scheme, which is why the step up to this band is measured in years.
Every word links to its dictionary entry, where you will find the full definition, the traditional form, the audio pronunciation and example sentences.