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公公偏头痛

55% of this song's words are HSK 1-3. 214 distinct words across 412 words of Chinese.

HSK 1HSK 2HSK 3HSK 4HSK 5HSK 6HSK 7-9Beyond HSK
If you are at HSK 2you already know about 48% of the words
If you are at HSK 3you already know about 55% of the words
If you are at HSK 4you already know about 60% of the words
If you are at HSK 5you already know about 62% of the words
If you are at HSK 6you already know about 83% of the words

The words that will slow you down

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

贪污 3×   军饷 3×   佳丽 3×   鞠躬 2×    2×   说道 2×    2×   歌颂 2×   下台 2×   黑白 1×    1×    1×   逍遥 1×    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
学而时习之
xué ér shí xí zhī
学 learn + 而 and yet + 时 o'clock + 习 study + 之 of1
摇头晃脑
yáo tóu huǎng nǎo
摇 shake + 头 head + 晃 dazzle + 脑 brain2
琴棋书画
qín qí shū huà
琴 guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2] + 棋 chess + 书 book + 画 drawthe four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the…2

Grammar in this song

了 (aspect/change)
AA reduplication (看看, 慢慢)
着 (continuous aspect)
比 (comparison)
更/最 (degree adverbs)
被 (passive)
directional complement (V+起来/下去/出来…)
把-construction

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