赵雷 (Zhao Lei) — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 47 songs (11,377 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 73.2% — rank 67 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 73% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 84% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 静下来 | 91% | 95% | 227 | 49 |
| 妈妈 | 86% | 97% | 241 | 57 |
| 浮游 | 84% | 90% | 154 | 99 |
| 未给姐姐递出的信 | 84% | 91% | 338 | 151 |
| 再见北京 | 83% | 90% | 244 | 102 |
| 开往北京的火车 | 82% | 91% | 222 | 86 |
| 北京的冬天 | 81% | 88% | 291 | 119 |
| 窑上路 | 81% | 84% | 252 | 64 |
| 三里屯的夜 | 81% | 87% | 217 | 114 |
| 不开的唇 | 80% | 89% | 210 | 89 |
| over | 80% | 93% | 255 | 151 |
| 无法长大 | 78% | 87% | 231 | 130 |
| 小屋 | 78% | 91% | 351 | 95 |
| 八十年代的歌 | 77% | 84% | 204 | 120 |
| 民谣 | 77% | 79% | 119 | 35 |
| 署前街少年 | 77% | 81% | 207 | 133 |
| 孤独 | 76% | 86% | 213 | 74 |
| 南方姑娘 | 76% | 84% | 246 | 146 |
| 吉姆餐厅 | 75% | 84% | 276 | 162 |
| 朵 | 75% | 83% | 302 | 149 |
| 十九岁 | 74% | 85% | 303 | 136 |
| 小雨中 | 74% | 83% | 174 | 62 |
| 三十岁的女人 | 73% | 84% | 213 | 114 |
| 背影 | 73% | 79% | 269 | 98 |
| 理想 | 73% | 83% | 295 | 137 |
| 船长 | 72% | 84% | 330 | 194 |
| 成都 | 72% | 79% | 325 | 95 |
| 梦中的哈德森 | 72% | 83% | 321 | 160 |
| 人家 | 72% | 89% | 216 | 104 |
| 欠父亲的话 | 72% | 84% | 287 | 151 |
| 让我偷偷看你 | 72% | 81% | 209 | 62 |
| 小行迹 | 72% | 84% | 306 | 152 |
| 少女 | 72% | 82% | 179 | 133 |
| 少年锦时 | 71% | 81% | 234 | 150 |
| 赵小雷 | 70% | 75% | 268 | 160 |
| 鼓楼 | 70% | 84% | 188 | 106 |
| 凌晨计程车 | 69% | 80% | 179 | 86 |
| 我记得 | 69% | 84% | 329 | 192 |
| 玛丽 | 69% | 81% | 172 | 105 |
| 彩虹下面 | 68% | 77% | 239 | 162 |
| 青春无处安放 | 67% | 85% | 177 | 95 |
| 我们的时光 | 66% | 78% | 213 | 114 |
| 再也不会去丽江 | 64% | 82% | 192 | 105 |
| 小人物 | 62% | 76% | 224 | 137 |
| 阿刁 | 59% | 68% | 258 | 159 |
| 程艾影 | 58% | 68% | 207 | 133 |
| 画 | 49% | 54% | 270 | 120 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 村庄 | 33.2× | 5 of 47 |
| 衣裳 | 28.9× | 11 of 47 |
| 青年 | 25.3× | 4 of 47 |
| 辆 | 21.4× | 6 of 47 |
| 快活 | 20.5× | 5 of 47 |
| 下面 | 18.8× | 5 of 47 |
| 馆 | 18.0× | 4 of 47 |
| 雨后 | 17.4× | 5 of 47 |
| 母亲 | 12.4× | 4 of 47 |
| 祝 | 12.0× | 5 of 47 |
| 她们 | 10.9× | 4 of 47 |
| 喜 | 10.8× | 7 of 47 |
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.
呐 66× 衣裳 21× 赵 18× 雷 17× 挥 16× 望 14× 儿 11× 拥挤 10× 黄昏 10× 喜 9× 忧 9× 飘 9×
Grammar you will meet
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 87% of songs |
|---|---|
| 了 (aspect/change) | 79% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 36% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 36% of songs |
| 把-construction | 30% of songs |
| directional complement (V+起来/下去/出来…) | 30% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 30% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 30% of songs |