AGA (Agatha Kong) — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 34 songs (8,470 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 66.0% — rank 132 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 66% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 78% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 56% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| thethingsabouttears | 81% | 90% | 321 | 101 |
| citypop | 76% | 84% | 248 | 122 |
| socanwe | 74% | 85% | 184 | 63 |
| 没有咖啡的吃茶店 | 73% | 85% | 184 | 95 |
| 认 | 73% | 84% | 212 | 87 |
| tonight | 72% | 82% | 234 | 140 |
| 圆 | 71% | 84% | 309 | 137 |
| seeyounexttime | 71% | 82% | 224 | 134 |
| drunkdial | 70% | 79% | 257 | 127 |
| 若 | 70% | 76% | 207 | 114 |
| round&round | 70% | 84% | 186 | 106 |
| 小问题 | 69% | 78% | 366 | 177 |
| 哈啰 | 68% | 78% | 213 | 106 |
| 3am | 67% | 77% | 216 | 136 |
| 吃定我 | 67% | 77% | 212 | 119 |
| superman | 66% | 78% | 299 | 165 |
| 无期 | 66% | 80% | 335 | 172 |
| 理性与任性之间 | 66% | 78% | 257 | 162 |
| 问好 | 65% | 75% | 312 | 179 |
| onedayatatime | 65% | 78% | 190 | 123 |
| missugoodbye | 65% | 78% | 279 | 191 |
| twoatatime | 64% | 76% | 226 | 131 |
| everyday | 63% | 80% | 215 | 137 |
| tomorrow | 63% | 75% | 212 | 145 |
| socalledlovesong | 62% | 75% | 260 | 138 |
| gasstationdiner | 62% | 73% | 201 | 96 |
| 一加一 | 62% | 72% | 272 | 156 |
| 一 | 62% | 72% | 271 | 155 |
| 能说不的秘密 | 60% | 72% | 430 | 172 |
| nightswithoutyou | 60% | 76% | 227 | 154 |
| unfamiliarcity | 60% | 69% | 206 | 117 |
| 孤雏 | 59% | 72% | 302 | 145 |
| 一厘米 | 54% | 68% | 212 | 112 |
| mad | 50% | 66% | 191 | 130 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 希冀 | 72.2× | 3 of 34 |
| 欢欣 | 64.2× | 3 of 34 |
| 但求 | 52.5× | 3 of 34 |
| 诚 | 48.1× | 4 of 34 |
| 荣幸 | 44.4× | 3 of 34 |
| 只得 | 43.8× | 5 of 34 |
| 伴侣 | 41.8× | 5 of 34 |
| 甚么 | 40.5× | 4 of 34 |
| 相恋 | 35.6× | 5 of 34 |
| 附近 | 32.1× | 3 of 34 |
| 缺陷 | 32.1× | 3 of 34 |
| 行人 | 25.1× | 3 of 34 |
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.
未 33× 似 26× 失恋 14× 亦 14× 知 13× 怎 13× 吻 12× 以 11× 伴侣 10× 甚么 10× 望 9× 情 9×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 76% of songs |
|---|---|
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 68% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 65% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 59% of songs |
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 47% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 29% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 29% of songs |
| A不A / A没A (yes-no question) | 18% of songs |