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YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/19

2026/05/19

Speech duration: 7min 27s
Unique characters · 41 once: 150
Word count: 552
Average sentence length: 6.4
Length: 10:24
Unique words · 46 once: 130
Syllables per minute: 107
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 125
Difficulty Upper-Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 41 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 41 sits in the Upper-Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Upper-Intermediate · 41

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 41 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 41 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 13

Lv 41

Lv 228

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 70%
HSK 2 9%
HSK 3 8%
HSK 4 1%
HSK 5 0%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 88% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 102 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
它	tā	it; it (pronoun for an animal)	45	Lv 1
喜欢	xǐ huān	to like; to be fond of	23	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]	22	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	17	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	17	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	15	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	13	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	13	Lv 1
吃	chī	to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc); variant of 吃[chi1]	12	Lv 2
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)	11	Lv 1
这里	zhè lǐ	here; variant of 這裡\|这里[zhe4 li3]	10	Lv 1
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.)	9	Lv 1
出去	chū qù	to go out	9	Lv 4
喵	miāo	(onom.) meow; cat's mewing	9	Unranked
如果	rú guǒ	if; in case; in the event that	9	Lv 1
东西	dōng xī	east and west; thing; stuff; person; CL:個\|个[ge4],件[jian4]	8	Lv 2
会	huì	can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts	8	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	8	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)	8	Lv 1
可是	kě shì	but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed	7	Lv 5

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A 10-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 7 minutes of speech at 107 syllables per minute. It's 552 words long, using 130 different words. Difficulty: Upper-Intermediate, Level 41 — it suits Upper-Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 41 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 它, 喜欢, 是.