Chinese for beginners｜What photos do you put on Dating APPs? Part 1

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/05

2026/05/05

Speech duration: 11min 11s
Unique characters · 37 once: 192
Word count: 1,083
Average sentence length: 6.4
Length: 13:23
Unique words · 49 once: 175
Syllables per minute: 130
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 225
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 54 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 54 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 54

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 54 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 54 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range.

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Vocab coverage

The Level you need to know each share of this video’s words. The dark 95% step is its difficulty.

Lv 1

Lv 4

Lv 10

Lv 54

Lv 153

HSK 3.0 coverage

Which HSK 3.0 list each of this video’s words comes from.

HSK 1 63%
HSK 2 6%
HSK 3 15%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 0%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 11%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 87% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, HSK 1–9 covers 89%.

Words to learn first

Pick a level to see the words a learner there needs to understand 95% of this video’s words.

Starting from zero (Beginner), learn 121 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 121 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
我	wǒ	I; me; my	83	Lv 1
的	de	of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的\|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs; really and truly; a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4]); (bound form) bull's-eye; target	68	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	56	Lv 1
照片	zhào piàn	photograph; picture; CL:張\|张[zhang1],套[tao4],幅[fu2]	44	Lv 5
你	nǐ	you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2]); you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)	43	Lv 1
对	duì	right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching	38	Lv 1
是	shì	to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]	38	Lv 1
张	zhāng	to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes; surname Zhang	36	Lv 4
在	zài	to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)	28	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	24	Lv 1
这	zhè	(pronoun) this; these; (coll.) this; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)	24	Lv 1
好	hǎo	good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello; to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to	22	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	17	Lv 1
佳	jiā	beautiful; fine; good; surname Jia	16	Lv 54
琪	qí	(literary) fine jade	16	Unranked
酷	kù	ruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (loanword) cool; hip	15	Lv 9
要	yào	to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) to demand; to coerce; (bound form) important	13	Lv 1
了	le	(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause); to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無\|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least; (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly; to understand clearly (variant of 瞭\|了[liao3]); unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]	11	Lv 1
吗	ma	(coll.) what?; used in 嗎啡\|吗啡[ma3 fei1]; (question particle for "yes-no" questions)	11	Lv 1
猜	cāi	to guess	11	Lv 6

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A 13-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 11 minutes of speech at 130 syllables per minute. It's 1,083 words long, using 175 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 54 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 54 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 我, 的, 很.