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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 风趣風趣 | charm / humor / wit / humorous / witty | syn | |
| 风沙風沙 | sand blown by wind / sandstorm | ||
| 风尚風尚 | current custom / current way of doing things | syn | |
| 丰盛豐盛 | rich / sumptuous | syn | |
| 风水風水 | feng shui / geomancy | ||
| 丰硕豐碩 | plentiful / substantial / rich (in resources etc) | syn | |
| 封锁封鎖 | to blockade / to seal off / to lock down | syn | |
| 风土人情風土人情 | local conditions and customs (idiom) | syn | |
| 风味風味 | distinctive flavor / distinctive style | syn | |
| 风云風雲 | weather / unstable situation | syn | |
| 风雨无阻風雨無阻 | regardless of weather conditions / rain, hail or shine | syn | |
| 风筝風箏 | kite (Etymology: Kites with bamboo whistles attached produced musical sounds when flown.) | syn | |
| 疯子瘋子 | madman / lunatic | syn | |
| 逢 | to meet by chance / to come across / (of a calendar event) to come along / (of an event) to fall on (a particular day) / to fawn upon | syn | |
| 缝縫 | to sew / to stitch | syn | |
| 缝合縫合 | to sew together / suture (in surgery) / to sew up (a wound) | ||
| 讽刺諷刺 | to satirize / to mock / irony / satire / sarcasm | syn | |
| 缝縫 | seam / crack / narrow slit / CL:道[dao4] | syn | |
| 凤凰鳳凰 | phoenix | syn | |
| 凤毛麟角鳳毛麟角 | lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom) / fig. few and far between | syn | |
| 佛 | Buddha / Buddhism (abbr. for 佛陀[Fo2tuo2]) | syn | |
| 否决否決 | to veto / to overrule | syn | |
| 敷 | to spread / to lay out / to apply (powder, ointment etc) / sufficient (to cover) / enough | syn | |
| 孵化 | breeding / to incubate / innovation (esp. in commerce and marketing) | syn | |
| 肤浅膚淺 | skin-deep / superficial / shallow | syn | |
| 敷衍 | to elaborate (on a theme) / to expound (the classics) / perfunctory / to skimp / to botch / to do sth half-heartedly or just for show / barely enough to get by | syn | |
| 扶持 | to help / to assist | syn | |
| 浮动浮動 | to float and drift / unstable | syn | |
| 俘获俘獲 | to capture (enemy property or personnel) / capture (physics: absorption of subatomic particle by an atom or nucleus) | syn | |
| 浮力 | buoyancy | ||
| 俘虏俘虜 | captive | syn | |
| 福气福氣 | good fortune / a blessing | syn | |
| 服气服氣 | to be convinced / to accept | syn | |
| 辐射輻射 | radiation | syn | |
| 服饰服飾 | apparel / clothing and personal adornment | syn | |
| 服务器服務器 | server (computer) / CL:臺|台[tai2] | ||
| 浮现浮現 | (of a thought or image) to come to mind / (of a smile etc) to appear (on sb's face) / (of a problem etc) to emerge | syn | |
| 浮躁 | fickle and impatient / restless / giddy / scatterbrained | syn | |
| 腐败腐敗 | corruption / to corrupt / to rot / rotten | syn | |
| 腐烂腐爛 | to rot / to putrefy / (fig.) corrupt | syn | |
| 抚摸撫摸 | to gently caress and stroke / to pet / to fondle | syn | |
| 腐蚀腐蝕 | corrosion / to corrode (degrade chemically) / to rot / corruption | syn | |
| 俯视俯視 | to overlook / to look down at | syn | |
| 俯首 | to bend one's head | syn | |
| 腐朽 | rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate | syn | |
| 抚恤撫恤 | (of an organization that has a duty of care) to give financial support to relatives of sb who has died or suffered serious injury | ||
| 抚养撫養 | to foster / to bring up / to raise | syn | |
| 斧子 | axe / hatchet / CL:把[ba3] | syn | |
| 负負 | to bear / to carry (on one's back) / to turn one's back on / to be defeated / negative (math. etc) | syn | |
| 附 | to add / to attach / to be close to / to be attached | syn | |
| 赴 | to go / to visit (e.g. another country) / to attend (a banquet etc) | syn | |
| 腹 | abdomen / stomach / belly | syn | |
| 副本 | copy / duplicate / transcript / (in online games) instance | syn | |
| 复查復查 | to check again / to re-examine | ||
| 附带附帶 | supplementary / incidentally / in parentheses / by chance / in passing / additionally / secondary / subsidiary / to attach | syn | |
| 复发復發 | to recur (of a disease) / to reappear / to relapse (into a former bad state) | syn | |
| 富含 | to contain in great quantities / rich in | syn | |
| 富豪 | rich and powerful person | syn | |
| 复合複合 | complex / compound / composite / hybrid / to compound / to combine | ||
| 附和 | to agree / to go along with / to echo (what sb says) | syn | |
| 复活復活 | to revive / (lit. and fig.) to come back to life / (religion) resurrection | syn | |
| 附加 | additional / annex | syn | |
| 富强富強 | rich and powerful | syn | |
| 附属附屬 | subsidiary / auxiliary / attached / affiliated / subordinate / subordinating | syn | |
| 复苏復蘇 | variant of 復甦|复苏[fu4 su1] / to recover (health, economic) / to resuscitate / anabiosis | syn | |
| 富翁 | rich person / millionaire / billionaire | syn | |
| 腹泻腹瀉 | diarrhea / to have the runs | syn | |
| 复兴復興 | to revive / to rejuvenate | syn | |
| 复原復原 | to restore (sth) to (its) former condition / to recover from illness / recovery | syn | |
| 负重負重 | (lit. and fig.) to carry a heavy load / to carry a heavy burden | syn | |
| 富足 | rich / plentiful | syn | |
| 副作用 | side effect | syn | |
| 改版 | to revise the current edition / revised edition | ||
| 改动改動 | to alter / to modify / to revise | syn | |
| 改观改觀 | change of appearance / to revise one's point of view | syn | |
| 改良 | to improve (sth) / to reform (a system) | syn | |
| 改日 | another day / some other day | syn | |
| 改邪归正改邪歸正 | to mend one's ways (idiom) / to turn over a new leaf | syn | |
| 改装改裝 | to change one's costume / to repackage / to remodel / to refit / to modify / to convert | ||
| 钙鈣 | calcium (chemistry) | ||
| 概槩 | old variant of 概[gai4] | syn | |
| 概况概況 | general situation / summary | syn | |
| 概论概論 | outline / introduction / survey / general discussion | ||
| 干戈 | weapons of war / arms | syn | |
| 干枯乾枯 | withered / shriveled / dried-up | syn | |
| 干涉 | to interfere / to meddle / interference | syn | |
| 甘心 | to be willing to / to resign oneself to | syn | |
| 干预干預 | to meddle / to intervene / intervention | syn | |
| 杆桿 | stick / pole / lever / classifier for long objects such as guns | syn | |
| 感触感觸 | one's thoughts and feelings / emotional stirring / moved / touched | syn | |
| 感恩 | to be grateful | syn | |
| 赶赴趕赴 | to hurry / to rush | syn | |
| 感慨 | to sigh with sorrow, regret etc / rueful / deeply moved | syn | |
| 感叹感嘆 | to sigh (with feeling) / to lament | syn | |
| 感悟 | to come to realize / to appreciate (feelings) | syn | |
| 感性 | perception / perceptual / sensibility / sensitive / emotional / sentimental | syn | |
| 干部幹部 | cadre / official / officer / manager | syn | |
| 干劲幹勁 | enthusiasm for doing sth | syn | |
| 干事幹事 | administrator / executive secretary | ||
| 缸 | jar / vat / classifier for loads of laundry / CL:口[kou3] | 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.