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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 籽 | seeds | syn | |
| 子弹子彈 | bullet / CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1],發|发[fa1] | syn | |
| 子弟 | child / the younger generation | syn | |
| 子孙子孫 | offspring / posterity | syn | |
| 自卑 | to have low self-esteem / to abase oneself | syn | |
| 自称自稱 | to call oneself / to claim to be / to profess / to claim a title | syn | |
| 自发自發 | spontaneous | syn | |
| 自费自費 | at one's own expense / self-funded | ||
| 自负自負 | conceited / to take responsibility | syn | |
| 字迹字跡 | handwriting | syn | |
| 自立 | independent / self-reliant / self-sustaining / to stand on one's own feet / to support oneself | syn | |
| 自理 | to take care of oneself / to provide for oneself | ||
| 自力更生 | regeneration through one's own effort (idiom) / self-reliance | syn | |
| 自满自滿 | complacent / self-satisfied | syn | |
| 自强不息自強不息 | to strive unremittingly / self-improvement | syn | |
| 自然而然 | involuntary / automatically | syn | |
| 自然界 | nature / the natural world | syn | |
| 自如 | unobstructed / unconstrained / smoothly / with ease / freely | syn | |
| 自始至终自始至終 | from start to finish (idiom) | syn | |
| 自首 | to give oneself up / to surrender (to the authorities) | syn | |
| 自私 | selfish / selfishness | syn | |
| 字体字體 | calligraphic style / typeface / font | syn | |
| 自卫自衛 | to defend oneself / self-defense | ||
| 自相矛盾 | to contradict oneself / self-contradictory / inconsistent | syn | |
| 自行 | voluntary / autonomous / by oneself / self- | syn | |
| 字眼 | wording | syn | |
| 自以为是自以為是 | to believe oneself infallible (idiom) / to be opinionated | syn | |
| 自在 | comfortable / at ease | syn | |
| 自责自責 | to blame oneself | syn | |
| 自治区自治區 | autonomous region, namely: Inner Mongolia 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区[Nei4 meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 qu1], Guangxi 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区[Guang3 xi1 Zhuang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1], Tibet 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xi1 zang4 Zi4 zhi4 qu1], Ningxia 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1], Xinjiang 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区[Xin1 jiang1 Wei2 wu2 er3 Zi4 zhi4 qu1] | ||
| 自主 | independent / to act for oneself / autonomous | syn | |
| 自尊 | self-respect / self-esteem / ego / pride | ||
| 宗 | school / sect / purpose / model / ancestor / clan / to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work) / classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs | syn | |
| 踪迹蹤跡 | tracks / trail / footprint / trace / vestige | syn | |
| 宗教 | religion | syn | |
| 综艺綜藝 | variety (entertainment format) | ||
| 宗旨 | objective / aim / goal | syn | |
| 总额總額 | total (amount or value) | syn | |
| 总而言之總而言之 | in short / in a word / in brief | syn | |
| 总和總和 | sum | syn | |
| 纵观縱觀 | to survey comprehensively / an overall survey | syn | |
| 纵横縱橫 | lit. warp and weft in weaving / vertically and horizontal / length and breadth / criss-crossed / able to move unhindered / abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横[He2 zong4 Lian2 heng2], School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | syn | |
| 纵然縱然 | even if / even though | syn | |
| 纵容縱容 | to indulge / to connive at | syn | |
| 纵深縱深 | depth (from front to rear) / depth (into a territory) / span (of time) / (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc) | syn | |
| 走过场走過場 | to go through the motions | syn | |
| 走弯路走彎路 | to take an indirect route / to waste one's time by using an inappropriate method | ||
| 走漏 | to leak (information, secrets etc) / to smuggle and evade tax / to suffer shrinkage (partial loss of goods due to theft etc) | syn | |
| 走势走勢 | tendency / trend / path | syn | |
| 走私 | to smuggle / to have an illicit affair | syn | |
| 走投无路走投無路 | to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate | syn | |
| 走向 | direction / strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology) / inclination / trend / to move towards / to head for | ||
| 揍 | to hit / to beat (sb) / (coll.) to smash (sth) | syn | |
| 奏效 | to show results / to be effective | syn | |
| 租赁租賃 | to rent / to lease / to hire | syn | |
| 足不出户足不出戶 | lit. not putting a foot outside / to stay at home | ||
| 足迹足跡 | footprint / track / spoor | syn | |
| 足智多谋足智多謀 | resourceful / full of stratagems | syn | |
| 祖传祖傳 | passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation | syn | |
| 祖父 | father's father / paternal grandfather | syn | |
| 祖籍 | ancestral hometown / original domicile (and civil registration) | syn | |
| 组建組建 | to organize / to set up / to establish | syn | |
| 阻拦阻攔 | to stop / to obstruct | syn | |
| 阻力 | resistance / drag | syn | |
| 祖母 | father's mother / paternal grandmother | syn | |
| 阻挠阻撓 | to thwart / to obstruct (sth) | syn | |
| 组装組裝 | to assemble / to put together | syn | |
| 祖宗 | ancestor / forebear | syn | |
| 钻空子鑽空子 | to take advantage of a loophole / to exploit an advantage / to seize the opportunity (esp. to do sth bad) | syn | |
| 钻研鑽研 | to study meticulously / to delve into | syn | |
| 钻石鑽石 | diamond / CL:顆|颗[ke1] | syn | |
| 嘴唇 | lip / CL:片[pian4] | syn | |
| 罪犯 | criminal | syn | |
| 罪魁祸首罪魁禍首 | criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom) / main culprit / fig. main cause of a disaster | syn | |
| 尊贵尊貴 | respected / respectable / honorable | syn | |
| 遵循 | to follow / to abide by / to comply with | syn | |
| 尊严尊嚴 | dignity / sanctity / honor / majesty | syn | |
| 遵照 | in accordance with / to follow (the rules) | syn | |
| 琢磨 | to ponder / to mull over / to think through / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2] | syn | |
| 左顾右盼左顧右盼 | glancing to left and right (idiom) / to look all around | syn | |
| 作弊 | to practice fraud / to cheat / to engage in corrupt practices | syn | |
| 作对作對 | to set oneself against / to oppose / to make a pair | syn | |
| 作废作廢 | to become invalid / to cancel / to delete / to nullify | ||
| 作风作風 | style / style of work / way | syn | |
| 作客 | to live somewhere as a visitor / to stay with sb as a guest / to sojourn | syn | |
| 作料 | condiments / seasoning / coll. pr. [zuo2 liao5] / Taiwan pr. [zuo2 liao4] | syn | |
| 坐落 | to be situated / to be located (of a building) | syn | |
| 座谈座談 | to have an informal discussion / CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4] | syn | |
| 作为作為 | one's conduct / deed / activity / accomplishment / achievement / to act as / as (in the capacity of) / qua / to view as / to look upon (sth as) / to take sth to be | syn | |
| 作物 | crop | syn | |
| 作息 | to work and rest | syn | |
| 座右铭座右銘 | motto / maxim | syn | |
| 作战作戰 | combat / to fight | syn | |
| 做证做證 | variant of 作證|作证[zuo4zheng4] | ||
| 做主 | variant of 作主[zuo4zhu3] |
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.