五月天 (Mayday) — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 47 songs (13,765 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 74.8% — rank 48 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 75% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 84% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 49% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 伤心的人别听慢歌 | 86% | 94% | 333 | 101 |
| 笑忘歌 | 85% | 90% | 311 | 113 |
| oaoa | 82% | 89% | 288 | 62 |
| 干杯 | 82% | 91% | 526 | 201 |
| 第一天 | 81% | 90% | 330 | 121 |
| 最好的一天 | 81% | 89% | 210 | 126 |
| 后来的我们 | 81% | 92% | 310 | 132 |
| 温柔 | 81% | 86% | 247 | 98 |
| 让我照顾你 | 81% | 92% | 252 | 97 |
| 时光机 | 80% | 87% | 224 | 126 |
| 突然好想你 | 80% | 92% | 212 | 102 |
| 温柔#maydayblue20th | 80% | 85% | 269 | 98 |
| 知足 | 78% | 89% | 229 | 90 |
| 你不是真正的快乐 | 77% | 90% | 326 | 140 |
| 将军令 | 77% | 88% | 297 | 162 |
| 因为你所以我 | 76% | 83% | 347 | 145 |
| 我不愿让你一个人 | 76% | 87% | 265 | 129 |
| 倔强 | 76% | 84% | 277 | 99 |
| 如烟 | 76% | 87% | 388 | 222 |
| 一颗苹果 | 75% | 87% | 243 | 160 |
| 咸鱼 | 75% | 91% | 271 | 99 |
| 终于结束的起点 | 75% | 87% | 350 | 176 |
| 私奔到月球 | 75% | 83% | 330 | 138 |
| 好好 | 75% | 83% | 234 | 155 |
| 恋爱ing | 74% | 87% | 172 | 85 |
| 刻在我心底的名字 | 74% | 86% | 272 | 126 |
| 超人 | 74% | 79% | 202 | 108 |
| 任性 | 73% | 83% | 352 | 133 |
| 玫瑰少年 | 73% | 81% | 270 | 118 |
| 顽固 | 71% | 84% | 252 | 124 |
| 派对动物 | 70% | 80% | 181 | 109 |
| 天使 | 69% | 76% | 294 | 55 |
| 拥抱 | 68% | 79% | 221 | 99 |
| 盛夏光年 | 68% | 87% | 161 | 61 |
| 成名在望 | 68% | 79% | 397 | 224 |
| 仓颉 | 67% | 79% | 281 | 139 |
| 步步 | 67% | 80% | 311 | 177 |
| 任意门 | 67% | 80% | 359 | 213 |
| 星空 | 67% | 84% | 277 | 136 |
| 最重要的小事 | 66% | 81% | 280 | 92 |
| 第二人生 | 65% | 77% | 304 | 156 |
| 如果我们不曾相遇 | 64% | 81% | 272 | 146 |
| 转眼 | 61% | 74% | 341 | 222 |
| 志明与春娇 | 59% | 71% | 299 | 77 |
| 离开地球表面 | 59% | 74% | 282 | 60 |
| 夜访吸血鬼 | 55% | 70% | 407 | 166 |
| 为你写下这首情歌 | 54% | 69% | 509 | 290 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 相片 | 21.1× | 5 of 47 |
| 风光 | 19.9× | 5 of 47 |
| 体温 | 13.9× | 4 of 47 |
| 生存 | 12.9× | 5 of 47 |
| 平凡 | 9.4× | 8 of 47 |
| 人间 | 8.9× | 10 of 47 |
| 一年 | 8.1× | 5 of 47 |
| 着眼 | 7.1× | 4 of 47 |
| 转眼 | 6.8× | 4 of 47 |
| 罗 | 6.6× | 5 of 47 |
| 室 | 6.5× | 6 of 47 |
| 或是 | 6.3× | 5 of 47 |
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.
天使 24× 汝 22× 烦恼 21× 孤单 19× 日日夜夜 19× 遮 17× 星 16× 温柔 16× 望 16× 寻 12× 身 12× 甩 12×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 81% of songs |
|---|---|
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 70% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 53% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 47% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 43% of songs |
| A不A / A没A (yes-no question) | 38% of songs |
| 把-construction | 30% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 21% of songs |