邓紫棋 (G.E.M.) — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 50 songs (14,143 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 75.3% — rank 43 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 75% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 85% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 42% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 你不是第一个离开的人 | 85% | 93% | 206 | 70 |
| 好想好想你 | 85% | 92% | 319 | 119 |
| 多远都要在一起 | 84% | 91% | 285 | 106 |
| 不想回家 | 83% | 90% | 293 | 124 |
| 倒流时间 | 81% | 91% | 286 | 114 |
| 很久以后 | 81% | 90% | 317 | 165 |
| 再见 | 80% | 87% | 248 | 127 |
| 于是 | 80% | 93% | 216 | 77 |
| 我的秘密 | 80% | 93% | 294 | 96 |
| ainy | 80% | 88% | 293 | 102 |
| 新的心跳 | 79% | 88% | 224 | 108 |
| ainy爱你 | 79% | 89% | 296 | 99 |
| 11 | 79% | 86% | 289 | 110 |
| 写不完的温柔 | 78% | 88% | 299 | 111 |
| 灰狼 | 78% | 87% | 426 | 177 |
| 差不多姑娘 | 78% | 86% | 477 | 216 |
| 多美丽 | 78% | 90% | 161 | 72 |
| 萤火 | 77% | 86% | 431 | 182 |
| 透明 | 77% | 87% | 412 | 131 |
| 红蔷薇白玫瑰 | 77% | 88% | 382 | 130 |
| 让世界暂停一分钟 | 77% | 87% | 181 | 90 |
| 别勉强 | 77% | 87% | 278 | 118 |
| 泡沫bubble | 77% | 83% | 226 | 97 |
| 泡沫 | 76% | 82% | 232 | 103 |
| 海阔天空 | 75% | 79% | 267 | 84 |
| 孤独 | 75% | 83% | 444 | 257 |
| 句号 | 74% | 86% | 439 | 208 |
| 你把我灌醉 | 74% | 85% | 212 | 87 |
| 倒数 | 72% | 85% | 311 | 139 |
| 后会无期 | 72% | 77% | 198 | 68 |
| 依然睡公主 | 71% | 85% | 314 | 137 |
| flyaway | 71% | 80% | 337 | 209 |
| 唯一 | 70% | 83% | 166 | 93 |
| 冰河时代 | 70% | 84% | 267 | 99 |
| gloria | 69% | 77% | 154 | 92 |
| 天空没有极限 | 69% | 75% | 373 | 174 |
| hell | 68% | 82% | 159 | 69 |
| 夜的尽头 | 68% | 77% | 188 | 67 |
| 情人 | 67% | 76% | 221 | 89 |
| 摩天动物园 | 66% | 77% | 684 | 325 |
| findyou | 66% | 80% | 217 | 92 |
| 光年之外 | 65% | 78% | 272 | 120 |
| 来自天堂的魔鬼 | 64% | 78% | 157 | 105 |
| wheredidugo | 64% | 81% | 247 | 114 |
| wheredidyougo | 64% | 81% | 247 | 114 |
| 喜欢你 | 62% | 80% | 200 | 103 |
| 桃花诺 | 59% | 69% | 211 | 109 |
| 回忆的沙漏 | 59% | 71% | 280 | 120 |
| walkonwater | 59% | 80% | 228 | 107 |
| 一路逆风 | 53% | 66% | 279 | 154 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 邓 | 102.8× | 11 of 50 |
| 蜂 | 61.1× | 7 of 50 |
| 棋 | 53.3× | 11 of 50 |
| 纳 | 23.8× | 6 of 50 |
| 紫 | 22.5× | 11 of 50 |
| 诉 | 15.0× | 4 of 50 |
| 扛 | 12.2× | 4 of 50 |
| 凋 | 10.7× | 4 of 50 |
| 勉强 | 9.9× | 5 of 50 |
| 放纵 | 8.6× | 4 of 50 |
| 相拥 | 7.9× | 4 of 50 |
| 娱乐 | 7.5× | 6 of 50 |
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.
不知 23× 泡沫 21× 星 17× 寂寞 16× 温柔 16× 望 14× 勉强 13× 相 12× 音 12× 邓 12× 棋 12× 未 12×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 68% of songs |
|---|---|
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 66% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 48% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 46% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 44% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 42% of songs |
| 把-construction | 36% of songs |
| A不A / A没A (yes-no question) | 30% of songs |