Carsick Cars — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 15 songs (1,956 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 71.4% — too few songs to rank |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 71% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 87% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 中南海 | 88% | 99% | 76 | 14 |
| 他们的一员 | 88% | 97% | 64 | 33 |
| 围城 | 79% | 91% | 162 | 67 |
| 爱的代价 | 78% | 89% | 198 | 94 |
| 一天的尽头 | 76% | 89% | 98 | 46 |
| threebeats | 74% | 88% | 85 | 38 |
| 可怜的人 | 73% | 89% | 66 | 36 |
| 庇护所之歌 | 71% | 79% | 168 | 104 |
| 舞台 | 69% | 84% | 187 | 67 |
| 蘑菇 | 68% | 73% | 105 | 19 |
| 种子 | 67% | 78% | 143 | 73 |
| 野草 | 64% | 78% | 138 | 46 |
| 叫醒我 | 63% | 87% | 152 | 90 |
| 告别 | 62% | 77% | 225 | 88 |
| 白歌 | 58% | 78% | 89 | 58 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 李 | 15.0× | 3 of 15 |
| 尽头 | 9.4× | 5 of 15 |
| 鸟 | 6.2× | 3 of 15 |
| 青 | 5.2× | 3 of 15 |
| 里面 | 4.4× | 3 of 15 |
| 城市 | 3.5× | 3 of 15 |
| 街 | 3.3× | 3 of 15 |
| 首 | 3.1× | 3 of 15 |
| 一样 | 3.0× | 4 of 15 |
| 吗 | 2.6× | 3 of 15 |
| 向 | 2.5× | 4 of 15 |
| 他 | 2.3× | 6 of 15 |
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.
蘑菇 18× 尽头 10× 采 6× 黎明 6× 支离破碎 6× 视线 5× 醒来 4× 终 4× 李 3× 寂静 3× 炙 3× 芽 3×
Grammar you will meet
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 53% of songs |
|---|---|
| 了 (aspect/change) | 33% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 33% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 33% of songs |
| line-final 吗/呢/吧 (question/suggestion) | 20% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 13% of songs |
| 的话 (conditional tail) | 13% of songs |
| 把-construction | 13% of songs |