林忆莲 (Sandy Lam) — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 41 songs (9,793 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 72.6% — rank 75 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 73% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 84% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 54% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 听说爱情回来过 | 88% | 95% | 397 | 84 |
| imnotstrongenough | 84% | 91% | 175 | 84 |
| 问 | 83% | 90% | 190 | 63 |
| 也许 | 82% | 94% | 219 | 90 |
| 不还你 | 82% | 89% | 187 | 59 |
| 十二小时不下雨 | 82% | 86% | 163 | 72 |
| 我坐在这里 | 79% | 85% | 368 | 111 |
| 不必在乎我是谁 | 79% | 87% | 273 | 95 |
| 至少还有你 | 79% | 91% | 259 | 85 |
| 爱过我的每一天 | 79% | 87% | 234 | 96 |
| 为你我受冷风吹 | 79% | 87% | 270 | 79 |
| 梦醒时分 | 77% | 85% | 144 | 63 |
| 伤痕 | 76% | 85% | 365 | 96 |
| 与爱长流 | 76% | 82% | 168 | 81 |
| 面对面 | 75% | 83% | 312 | 154 |
| 重遇 | 75% | 87% | 190 | 69 |
| itwasntmeanttobe | 75% | 89% | 173 | 87 |
| 我不能忘记你 | 75% | 83% | 208 | 112 |
| 无赖 | 74% | 84% | 291 | 96 |
| 远走高飞 | 74% | 89% | 174 | 78 |
| 为何他会离开你 | 73% | 78% | 310 | 165 |
| 夜太黑 | 72% | 85% | 282 | 110 |
| 纸飞机 | 71% | 89% | 157 | 74 |
| 灰 | 71% | 91% | 141 | 56 |
| 领悟 | 71% | 83% | 361 | 103 |
| 失踪 | 71% | 81% | 235 | 94 |
| 诱惑的街 | 70% | 81% | 375 | 115 |
| 呼吸 | 70% | 84% | 331 | 144 |
| 寂寞流星群 | 69% | 78% | 138 | 106 |
| 爱上一个不回家的人 | 69% | 86% | 254 | 72 |
| 情人 | 67% | 76% | 186 | 88 |
| 分分钟需要你 | 66% | 78% | 253 | 104 |
| 不敢奢想改变你 | 66% | 83% | 235 | 128 |
| 词不达意 | 65% | 80% | 223 | 110 |
| 再见悲哀 | 64% | 74% | 344 | 142 |
| 铿锵玫瑰 | 63% | 74% | 277 | 136 |
| 激情 | 59% | 71% | 147 | 85 |
| 纤维 | 58% | 72% | 208 | 124 |
| 归零 | 57% | 84% | 158 | 61 |
| 沙文 | 51% | 63% | 205 | 121 |
| 幻觉动物 | 51% | 61% | 213 | 112 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 真心真意 | 59.9× | 3 of 41 |
| 音频 | 53.2× | 3 of 41 |
| 辑 | 30.4× | 4 of 41 |
| 甘心 | 14.5× | 3 of 41 |
| 等于 | 14.1× | 3 of 41 |
| 相对 | 11.7× | 3 of 41 |
| 谓 | 10.0× | 3 of 41 |
| 蔓延 | 8.9× | 4 of 41 |
| 一般 | 8.9× | 3 of 41 |
| 女人 | 8.1× | 5 of 41 |
| 悔 | 7.3× | 5 of 41 |
| 在乎 | 7.1× | 6 of 41 |
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 13× 寂寞 12× 何必 11× 温柔 11× 身 10× 思念 10× 悔 10× 诱惑 10× 领悟 10× 石磊 9× 灵魂 9× 吻 9×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 68% of songs |
|---|---|
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 54% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 44% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 37% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 27% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 22% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 17% of songs |
| 把-construction | 15% of songs |