莫文蔚 (Karen Mok) — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 67 songs (15,305 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 71.9% — rank 85 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 72% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 82% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 39% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 如果没有你 | 91% | 95% | 223 | 60 |
| fire | 90% | 96% | 208 | 81 |
| 24hrs | 88% | 92% | 299 | 83 |
| 话题 | 85% | 94% | 144 | 68 |
| 外面的世界 | 83% | 93% | 153 | 43 |
| lve拉活 | 83% | 89% | 208 | 65 |
| 慢慢喜欢你 | 82% | 89% | 272 | 138 |
| 台 | 81% | 90% | 224 | 82 |
| 真的吗 | 81% | 90% | 203 | 94 |
| letsfallinlove | 80% | 85% | 141 | 60 |
| 广岛之恋 | 80% | 91% | 329 | 106 |
| 是这样吗 | 79% | 85% | 185 | 69 |
| 浓情化不开 | 78% | 86% | 256 | 89 |
| 单人房双人床 | 78% | 85% | 285 | 102 |
| 他不爱我 | 77% | 85% | 251 | 83 |
| 哪怕 | 77% | 89% | 126 | 43 |
| 只是不够爱 | 77% | 83% | 208 | 118 |
| 手 | 77% | 85% | 247 | 106 |
| 爱 | 76% | 87% | 178 | 77 |
| 盛夏的果实 | 76% | 87% | 215 | 96 |
| 半生缘 | 76% | 81% | 95 | 64 |
| 爱情 | 76% | 87% | 161 | 64 |
| 境外 | 75% | 88% | 256 | 126 |
| thewayyoumakemefeel | 75% | 84% | 225 | 88 |
| 是非题 | 75% | 92% | 305 | 75 |
| loveyourself让我美 | 74% | 79% | 257 | 88 |
| ampm | 74% | 85% | 178 | 78 |
| 忽然之间 | 74% | 89% | 174 | 63 |
| 电台情歌 | 74% | 88% | 184 | 87 |
| 一个人睡 | 73% | 86% | 267 | 86 |
| 日场夜场 | 73% | 87% | 273 | 110 |
| 再生 | 73% | 80% | 183 | 96 |
| 当你老了 | 73% | 79% | 150 | 63 |
| 头号粉丝 | 72% | 79% | 270 | 94 |
| 恋一世的爱 | 72% | 81% | 145 | 87 |
| 天下大同 | 71% | 83% | 273 | 122 |
| 被我弄丢的你 | 71% | 82% | 220 | 110 |
| 寂寞的恋人啊 | 71% | 79% | 242 | 92 |
| 坚强的理由 | 70% | 90% | 147 | 75 |
| 薄荷 | 69% | 77% | 223 | 67 |
| 阴天 | 69% | 79% | 262 | 148 |
| 自洽 | 68% | 79% | 225 | 142 |
| 这世界那么多人 | 68% | 83% | 271 | 118 |
| 回家 | 68% | 74% | 209 | 105 |
| 十二楼 | 68% | 77% | 219 | 118 |
| 分分钟需要你 | 67% | 79% | 236 | 103 |
| 未了情 | 67% | 76% | 120 | 82 |
| 如初之光 | 66% | 83% | 301 | 132 |
| 初恋 | 65% | 77% | 194 | 70 |
| ido | 65% | 78% | 195 | 101 |
| 色情男女 | 64% | 72% | 261 | 138 |
| 岁月里的花 | 64% | 82% | 241 | 142 |
| 妇女新知 | 63% | 75% | 547 | 297 |
| diva | 62% | 74% | 186 | 127 |
| 月蚀 | 61% | 78% | 185 | 69 |
| 比夜更黑 | 60% | 68% | 262 | 155 |
| 吸烟不吸烟 | 59% | 75% | 271 | 138 |
| 忽然东风 | 58% | 68% | 294 | 163 |
| 冷雨 | 58% | 70% | 230 | 126 |
| 北极光 | 58% | 71% | 239 | 130 |
| 到了晚上 | 57% | 65% | 205 | 122 |
| 呼吸有害 | 56% | 72% | 223 | 134 |
| 水色 | 55% | 71% | 192 | 95 |
| 潮湿 | 55% | 74% | 344 | 144 |
| 情人看剑 | 50% | 57% | 293 | 130 |
| 幻听 | 49% | 63% | 211 | 150 |
| 冬至 | 48% | 58% | 306 | 156 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 潭 | 60.1× | 8 of 67 |
| 朱 | 45.1× | 6 of 67 |
| 康 | 30.8× | 6 of 67 |
| 陆 | 29.3× | 6 of 67 |
| 卫 | 25.7× | 5 of 67 |
| 蔚 | 23.3× | 10 of 67 |
| 峰 | 22.2× | 5 of 67 |
| 杨 | 15.0× | 6 of 67 |
| 敬 | 8.4× | 5 of 67 |
| 德 | 8.3× | 6 of 67 |
| 莫 | 7.4× | 12 of 67 |
| 然 | 7.3× | 5 of 67 |
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.
吻 29× 恋 27× 似 26× 未 22× 情 20× 寂寞 18× 莫 17× 一面 16× 怎 16× 文 15× 德 15× 相 15×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 72% of songs |
|---|---|
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 51% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 40% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 33% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 30% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 24% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 24% of songs |
| 把-construction | 16% of songs |