h3R3 — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 37 songs (9,775 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 70.7% — rank 98 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 71% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 84% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 51% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 回到你身边 | 81% | 92% | 315 | 118 |
| 我又想你了 | 80% | 87% | 177 | 89 |
| 戒掉 | 80% | 94% | 264 | 75 |
| 是冬天是告别 | 79% | 90% | 282 | 100 |
| 他只是经过 | 77% | 92% | 274 | 132 |
| i‘myourspt2 | 77% | 82% | 493 | 201 |
| 影子 | 76% | 85% | 181 | 100 |
| liar | 76% | 89% | 130 | 65 |
| 再见 | 76% | 87% | 222 | 128 |
| 烟火 | 76% | 88% | 272 | 112 |
| 我从没想过你要走 | 76% | 89% | 156 | 86 |
| 亲爱的 | 76% | 86% | 320 | 95 |
| 无赖 | 75% | 87% | 349 | 139 |
| 记号 | 75% | 84% | 295 | 157 |
| 我要你别离开 | 73% | 84% | 112 | 62 |
| 退场白 | 73% | 81% | 272 | 134 |
| weyoung | 73% | 81% | 220 | 137 |
| 忘不掉的你 | 72% | 85% | 279 | 147 |
| 最后的借口 | 71% | 81% | 523 | 218 |
| 再等冬天 | 71% | 86% | 326 | 129 |
| 模糊不清的孤独 | 70% | 85% | 271 | 149 |
| 我们之间 | 70% | 82% | 337 | 173 |
| 黑键 | 70% | 86% | 196 | 133 |
| 来不及爱你 | 69% | 89% | 254 | 123 |
| 陪在你身边 | 69% | 85% | 387 | 174 |
| 先说谎的人 | 68% | 81% | 304 | 173 |
| 不用说抱歉 | 67% | 79% | 224 | 105 |
| down | 66% | 83% | 135 | 60 |
| 灰 | 65% | 80% | 288 | 159 |
| 烈焰 | 64% | 79% | 318 | 176 |
| 念 | 63% | 81% | 320 | 152 |
| 红线 | 63% | 75% | 79 | 53 |
| 回想 | 63% | 77% | 196 | 107 |
| 噩梦 | 63% | 81% | 148 | 98 |
| 虚构 | 63% | 78% | 380 | 167 |
| 瓦解 | 62% | 79% | 201 | 90 |
| 黑 | 56% | 70% | 275 | 147 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 忍心 | 40.8× | 3 of 37 |
| 遗留 | 35.4× | 3 of 37 |
| 裂缝 | 22.8× | 4 of 37 |
| 分裂 | 21.2× | 3 of 37 |
| 界限 | 20.4× | 3 of 37 |
| 残留 | 20.2× | 4 of 37 |
| 如果说 | 20.1× | 5 of 37 |
| 血液 | 18.6× | 6 of 37 |
| 腐烂 | 18.3× | 3 of 37 |
| 脉搏 | 17.7× | 4 of 37 |
| 一旁 | 17.7× | 3 of 37 |
| 烙 | 17.1× | 3 of 37 |
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.
思念 17× 撕 16× 身 12× 瞬间 11× 吻 10× 借口 9× 谎言 9× 星 9× 挽 8× 凑 8× 对白 8× 残留 7×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 86% of songs |
|---|---|
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 84% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 57% of songs |
| 把-construction | 54% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 49% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 38% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 32% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 27% of songs |