Wanna try Chinese hair style? | Beginner Chinese| Comprehensible Input

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2025/09/28
2025/09/28
Speech duration
16min 40s
Unique characters · 63 once
277
Word count
2,247
Average sentence length
7.0
Length
21:48
Unique words · 76 once
287
Syllables per minute
195
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
460
Difficulty
Upper-Intermediatedifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 60 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range.

How difficulty works
Upper-Intermediate · 60

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 60 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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 46%
  • HSK 2 11%
  • HSK 3 12%
  • HSK 4 6%
  • HSK 5 6%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 17%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 75% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 82%, HSK 1–9 covers 83%.

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 193 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 193 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this126Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my103Lv 1
的deof; ~'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; target83Lv 1
是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]74Lv 1
然后rán hòuthen; after that; afterwards57Lv 2
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-51Lv 1
好hǎogood; 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 to51Lv 1
可以kě yǐcan; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good40Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)36Lv 1
头发tóu fāhair (on the head)34Lv 9

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A 22-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 17 minutes of speech at 195 syllables per minute. It's 2,247 words long, using 287 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 60 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 60 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 这个, 我, 的.