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诗人与商人

54% of this song's words are HSK 1-3. 140 distinct words across 271 words of Chinese.

HSK 1HSK 2HSK 3HSK 4HSK 5HSK 6HSK 7-9Beyond HSK
If you are at HSK 2you already know about 45% of the words
If you are at HSK 3you already know about 54% of the words
If you are at HSK 4you already know about 66% of the words
If you are at HSK 5you already know about 70% of the words
If you are at HSK 6you already know about 78% of the words

The words that will slow you down

HSK 7-9 or outside the lists entirely, most frequent first.

试探 4×    4×   悲欢 4×   忽明 4×    4×   周旋 4×    4×    3×   只言片语 3×   发酵 3×   黎明 1×    1×   适可而止 1×   谎话 1×  

Chengyu

A chengyu is a four-character idiom that packs a whole scene into four syllables. The literal column is what the characters say; the meaning is what the phrase does — and the last column is how many of the 6,545 songs analysed so far use it.

ChengyuLiterallyMeaningSongs
只言片语×3
zhī yán piàn yǔ
只 grain that has be… + 言 words + 片 thin piece + 语 dialectjust a word or two; a few isolated phrases8
适可而止
shì kě ér zhǐ
适 fit + 可 can + 而 and yet + 止 stopto refrain from going too far; to know when to stop8

Grammar in this song

着 (continuous aspect)
过 (experiential aspect)
更/最 (degree adverbs)
directional complement (V+起来/下去/出来…)

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