古务运动 — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 3 songs (1,087 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 44.6% — too few songs to rank |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 45% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 54% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 100% |
HSK 1HSK 2HSK 3HSK 4HSK 5HSK 6HSK 7-9Beyond HSK
Songs, easiest to hardest
Ranked by the share of HSK 1-3 vocabulary. Lyrics are not shown or stored — open a song to see its vocabulary breakdown, or paste the lyrics for the colour-coded view.
| Song | HSK 1-3 | Known at HSK 5 | Words | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 驻云飞空 | 55% | 71% | 490 | 130 |
| 大地恓惶 | 45% | 53% | 177 | 88 |
| 骷髅痛哭 | 41% | 54% | 420 | 118 |
Most distinctive words
Words this artist uses far more often than the rest of the corpus does — what makes their writing recognisable, rather than simply what they say most.
| Word | vs. other artists | in their songs |
|---|---|---|
| 之 | 17.9× | 3 of 3 |
| 三 | 17.2× | 3 of 3 |
| 尽 | 14.9× | 3 of 3 |
| 无 | 6.2× | 3 of 3 |
Words this artist leans on that HSK 1-6 never teaches
Most frequent vocabulary in the HSK 7-9 band or outside the lists entirely.
虚 18× 骷髅儿 18× 恓惶 15× 之 15× 骷髅 14× 怎 13× 烦恼 13× 历 11× 祖师 11× 菩 11× 萨 11× 谁知 6×
Grammar you will meet
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 67% of songs |
|---|---|
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 33% of songs |
| 了 (aspect/change) | 33% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 33% of songs |