黄龄 (Isabelle Huang) — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 34 songs (8,731 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 58.0% — rank 150 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 58% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 73% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 62% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| high歌 | 88% | 94% | 136 | 19 |
| 爱就爱了 | 82% | 87% | 131 | 61 |
| 彩色复活券 | 79% | 89% | 358 | 189 |
| 等待 | 79% | 89% | 253 | 71 |
| 香烟与吻痕 | 77% | 87% | 309 | 116 |
| 骑士 | 73% | 82% | 343 | 177 |
| 只有猫知道 | 72% | 77% | 323 | 145 |
| 痒 | 71% | 80% | 236 | 66 |
| 禁区 | 70% | 83% | 254 | 136 |
| 锁 | 68% | 78% | 350 | 92 |
| 免我蹉跎苦 | 63% | 75% | 344 | 126 |
| 特别 | 63% | 84% | 235 | 122 |
| 夜舞 | 62% | 77% | 183 | 101 |
| 发财歌 | 61% | 70% | 415 | 188 |
| 风月 | 59% | 73% | 283 | 171 |
| 黑童话 | 58% | 77% | 86 | 65 |
| 花色 | 58% | 69% | 193 | 102 |
| 梨雨夜归人 | 58% | 77% | 300 | 105 |
| 露 | 58% | 75% | 327 | 144 |
| 她是水 | 58% | 71% | 314 | 148 |
| 芯世纪 | 57% | 73% | 268 | 123 |
| 三拜红尘凉 | 56% | 64% | 352 | 112 |
| 恰好 | 54% | 68% | 161 | 69 |
| 入画江南 | 53% | 66% | 290 | 144 |
| 执一念 | 53% | 65% | 248 | 120 |
| 小雨 | 52% | 64% | 332 | 140 |
| 女儿心如水 | 51% | 60% | 296 | 155 |
| 青纹 | 51% | 65% | 191 | 59 |
| 灵芝缘 | 50% | 63% | 226 | 120 |
| 繁华梦 | 50% | 61% | 212 | 114 |
| 星河叹 | 49% | 62% | 215 | 114 |
| 时光吟 | 47% | 67% | 212 | 141 |
| 啊 | 45% | 61% | 150 | 99 |
| 不散 | 38% | 55% | 205 | 106 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 夕 | 44.4× | 3 of 34 |
| 情深 | 41.2× | 3 of 34 |
| 悲欢 | 34.0× | 3 of 34 |
| 抵挡 | 25.1× | 3 of 34 |
| 相思 | 21.4× | 4 of 34 |
| 悠悠 | 17.5× | 4 of 34 |
| 叹 | 17.2× | 6 of 34 |
| 不为 | 15.6× | 3 of 34 |
| 延 | 15.2× | 3 of 34 |
| 裹 | 14.4× | 3 of 34 |
| 繁华 | 13.8× | 4 of 34 |
| 曳 | 13.8× | 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.
情 36× 财 19× 天地 17× 何 16× 拜 16× 盼 15× 发财 15× 叹 13× 世 13× 明 12× 免 12× 蹉跎 12×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 59% of songs |
|---|---|
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 53% of songs |
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 41% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 32% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 29% of songs |
| 把-construction | 26% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 18% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 15% of songs |