Story7 Tones - bao | 100 Chinese Stories | SUPER BEGINNER | Comprehensible Input

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2024/09/09

Speech duration: 9min 42s
Unique characters · 15 once: 86
Word count: 994
Average sentence length: 5.6
Length: 11:57
Unique words · 22 once: 87
Syllables per minute: 144
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 248
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 166 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 166 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 166

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 166 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 166 sits in the Advanced 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 2

Lv 20

Lv 52

Lv 166

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 61%
HSK 2 5%
HSK 3 5%
HSK 4 3%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 25%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 74% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 75%, HSK 1–9 covers 75%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 52 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
宝宝	bǎo bǎo	darling; baby	76	Lv 20
包子	bāo zi	baozi; bao (steamed stuffed bun); CL:個\|个[ge4]	70	Lv 166
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]	60	Lv 2
汉堡	hàn bǎo	Hamburg (German city); (loanword) hamburger	59	Lv 52
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]	42	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	40	Lv 1
妈妈	mā mā	mama; mommy; mother; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	36	Lv 2
说	shuō	to persuade; to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine; variant of 說\|说[shuo1]	36	Lv 1
包	bāo	to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of; to contract (to or for); package; wrapper; container; bag; to hold or embrace; bundle; packet; CL:個\|个[ge4],隻\|只[zhi1]; surname Bao	32	Lv 13
个	gè	used in 自個兒\|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]; (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual; variant of 個\|个[ge4]	29	Lv 1
抱	bào	to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely	27	Lv 15
我	wǒ	I; me; my	25	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	25	Lv 1
吃饱	chī bǎo	to eat one's fill	24	Unranked
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]	24	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	24	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	22	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	21	Lv 1
钱	qián	coin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩\|两[liang3]; CL:筆\|笔[bi3]; surname Qian	18	Lv 2
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	16	Lv 1

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A 12-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 10 minutes of speech at 144 syllables per minute. It's 994 words long, using 87 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 166 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 166 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 宝宝, 包子, 吃.