三册柏 (San Cebai) — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 13 songs (2,646 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 73.4% — too few songs to rank |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 73% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 82% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 38% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02苏州河 | 88% | 91% | 118 | 74 |
| 02鱼 | 85% | 94% | 131 | 39 |
| 04有些答案不必等 | 84% | 89% | 695 | 324 |
| 01有些答案不必等 | 84% | 89% | 700 | 325 |
| 你救了我，我将娶你为妻 | 81% | 85% | 254 | 147 |
| 我的人生到底是从哪里开始变得不对劲儿了呢 | 76% | 79% | 33 | 31 |
| 空中鹊桥 | 73% | 82% | 124 | 87 |
| 我很好，我很棒 | 72% | 80% | 296 | 193 |
| 雪孩子 | 67% | 67% | 24 | 22 |
| 在这个时刻 | 65% | 83% | 183 | 86 |
| 11他这会儿睡着了 | 54% | 58% | 24 | 24 |
| 01你救了我，我将娶你为妻 | 54% | 62% | 37 | 35 |
| 也许我也感冒了吧 | 41% | 59% | 27 | 26 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 使用 | 223.8× | 4 of 13 |
| 不干 | 167.8× | 3 of 13 |
| 未经 | 125.9× | 3 of 13 |
| 同意 | 88.8× | 3 of 13 |
| 您 | 62.9× | 3 of 13 |
| 结婚 | 55.9× | 3 of 13 |
| 落日 | 52.1× | 3 of 13 |
| 勿 | 42.0× | 3 of 13 |
| 对白 | 35.1× | 6 of 13 |
| 采 | 34.7× | 6 of 13 |
| 私 | 33.6× | 3 of 13 |
| 迈 | 30.2× | 3 of 13 |
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.
采 6× 对白 6× 翅膀 6× 鹰 6× 发愁 6× 螃蟹 6× 冕 5× 之 5× 黄昏 4× 何时 4× 忘掉 4× 一头 4×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 77% of songs |
|---|---|
| line-final 吗/呢/吧 (question/suggestion) | 62% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 38% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 31% of songs |
| directional complement (V+起来/下去/出来…) | 31% of songs |
| 是…的 (emphasis) | 23% of songs |
| 把-construction | 23% of songs |
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 23% of songs |