mac ova seas — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 20 songs (6,449 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 76.9% — rank 21 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 77% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 86% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 55% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| makeumine | 81% | 88% | 121 | 78 |
| 走 | 81% | 88% | 420 | 173 |
| 天上一天 | 81% | 86% | 385 | 181 |
| 信 | 80% | 86% | 406 | 208 |
| myback | 80% | 93% | 319 | 141 |
| 得到 | 79% | 88% | 530 | 213 |
| 可以 | 78% | 88% | 409 | 201 |
| 半分钟 | 78% | 86% | 323 | 195 |
| 丘比特 | 77% | 85% | 231 | 134 |
| allbecauseiloveu | 77% | 86% | 255 | 162 |
| born2d | 76% | 86% | 551 | 275 |
| 滤镜 | 75% | 85% | 297 | 171 |
| endlesslegacy | 75% | 86% | 281 | 149 |
| 大于忙宁intro | 75% | 87% | 107 | 55 |
| 闪电 | 74% | 86% | 190 | 103 |
| 百达斐丽hellokitty | 74% | 82% | 217 | 95 |
| letmeknow | 73% | 85% | 386 | 236 |
| 国际航班 | 72% | 87% | 308 | 168 |
| 人为财死鸟为食亡 | 71% | 81% | 502 | 185 |
| cantcomeback | 70% | 81% | 211 | 132 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 执行 | 69.4× | 7 of 20 |
| 豆 | 49.1× | 3 of 20 |
| 哥 | 34.2× | 9 of 20 |
| 批 | 33.9× | 3 of 20 |
| 伙 | 31.9× | 4 of 20 |
| 凶 | 30.3× | 5 of 20 |
| 啥 | 29.5× | 10 of 20 |
| 咋 | 28.3× | 7 of 20 |
| 反而 | 27.6× | 7 of 20 |
| 勒 | 26.8× | 5 of 20 |
| 娃儿 | 25.8× | 3 of 20 |
| 慌 | 23.9× | 3 of 20 |
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.
啥 27× 哥 15× 儿 13× 耍 12× 咋 12× 麦 10× 勒 9× 经 9× 哈 8× 豆 8× 脑 8× 壳 8×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 100% of songs |
|---|---|
| 把-construction | 75% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 65% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 55% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 45% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 40% of songs |
| resultative complement V完 (finish V-ing) | 40% of songs |
| 比 (comparison) | 35% of songs |