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72% of this song's words are HSK 1-3. 145 distinct words across 323 words of Chinese.

HSK 1HSK 2HSK 3HSK 4HSK 5HSK 6HSK 7-9Beyond HSK
If you are at HSK 2you already know about 63% of the words
If you are at HSK 3you already know about 72% of the words
If you are at HSK 4you already know about 74% of the words
If you are at HSK 5you already know about 77% of the words
If you are at HSK 6you already know about 80% of the words

The words that will slow you down

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

觥筹交错 3×   纷扰 3×   繁华 3×   柔软 3×   打搅 3×   庸人自扰 3×   安稳 3×   天地 3×    3×   不计 3×    2×   遗珠 2×    2×   玫瑰 2×  

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
觥筹交错×3
gōng chóu jiāo cuò
觥 big + 筹 chip + 交 hand over + 错 mistakewine goblets and gambling chips lie intertwined; to drink and gamble together in a large group2
庸人自扰×3
yōng rén zì rǎo
silly people get their panties in a bunchto get upset over nothing9
君子之交
jūn zǐ zhī jiāo
君 monarch + 子 son + 之 of + 交 hand overfriendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])2
天荒地老
tiān huāng dì lǎo
天 day + 荒 desolate + 地 earth + 老 prefix used befor…until the end of time12

Grammar in this song

AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢)
adj+一点(儿) (a bit more …)
着 (continuous aspect)
比 (comparison)
不如 (comparison / might as well)

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