TizzyT — how hard are the lyrics?
Based on 36 songs (14,974 words of Chinese) analyzed against HSK 3.0.
| Typical song: share of words in HSK 1-3 | 79.4% — rank 5 of 152 (full leaderboard) |
|---|---|
| Typical song at HSK 3 | you would already know about 79% of the words |
| Typical song at HSK 5 | about 89% |
| Songs with a chengyu | 72% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 你 | 88% | 93% | 414 | 165 |
| goinggo | 86% | 91% | 325 | 175 |
| 告别 | 85% | 89% | 185 | 79 |
| 几乎成名 | 84% | 91% | 453 | 209 |
| 小问题 | 84% | 93% | 488 | 190 |
| 市中心 | 84% | 87% | 395 | 131 |
| 设计 | 83% | 90% | 442 | 203 |
| 100 | 83% | 89% | 540 | 241 |
| 梦里面 | 82% | 91% | 271 | 134 |
| ikic | 82% | 89% | 403 | 214 |
| 橘子 | 81% | 89% | 378 | 195 |
| 噩梦 | 81% | 89% | 404 | 141 |
| 都市空巢青年 | 81% | 89% | 273 | 139 |
| 青春叛逆手册 | 81% | 90% | 289 | 163 |
| 重色轻友 | 81% | 89% | 445 | 198 |
| dontgobacktonight | 81% | 92% | 324 | 153 |
| 顶峰 | 80% | 86% | 587 | 335 |
| 呼吸 | 79% | 89% | 301 | 140 |
| 飞船失事 | 79% | 88% | 406 | 187 |
| 大头贴 | 79% | 90% | 434 | 212 |
| party是我家 | 79% | 82% | 480 | 173 |
| 99 | 79% | 84% | 394 | 175 |
| 周日 | 78% | 90% | 710 | 236 |
| 少数派报告 | 78% | 86% | 127 | 87 |
| 你最好知道 | 78% | 85% | 474 | 255 |
| 雨不停 | 78% | 84% | 480 | 197 |
| 失控 | 77% | 85% | 526 | 235 |
| 庆幸 | 76% | 83% | 397 | 209 |
| 你想要什么 | 75% | 84% | 313 | 188 |
| 盯着王座 | 73% | 81% | 513 | 268 |
| 头文字t | 73% | 85% | 531 | 268 |
| 月半小夜曲 | 73% | 80% | 474 | 236 |
| 晃 | 72% | 79% | 490 | 196 |
| 刺激 | 72% | 82% | 344 | 141 |
| 匕首 | 71% | 81% | 505 | 200 |
| 世界奇妙物语 | 67% | 80% | 459 | 225 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 抄袭 | 68.2× | 3 of 36 |
| 手法 | 68.2× | 3 of 36 |
| 飞船 | 49.6× | 3 of 36 |
| 上个 | 48.5× | 4 of 36 |
| 瓶颈 | 45.5× | 3 of 36 |
| 打听 | 45.5× | 4 of 36 |
| 出路 | 36.4× | 3 of 36 |
| 出场 | 28.7× | 3 of 36 |
| 团队 | 28.0× | 4 of 36 |
| 驾 | 22.7× | 3 of 36 |
| 酷 | 22.4× | 9 of 36 |
| 礼拜 | 21.0× | 3 of 36 |
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.
晃 40× 哥 23× 今 21× 穿过 14× 漂 13× 匕 13× 庆幸 11× 从来不 10× 玩 10× 兄 10× 弟 10× 锋 10×
Grammar you will meet
| 了 (aspect/change) | 89% of songs |
|---|---|
| 着 (continuous aspect) | 86% of songs |
| 把-construction | 75% of songs |
| 被 (passive) | 75% of songs |
| 过 (experiential aspect) | 58% of songs |
| potential complement (V得/不+C: 听不懂, 睡不着) | 53% of songs |
| AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢) | 47% of songs |
| 更/最 (degree adverbs) | 47% of songs |