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Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments | Comprehensible Input | Intermediate Chinese

YouTube · BlaBla Chinese · Learner content · 2023/11/04
2023/11/04
Speech duration
5min 0s
Unique characters · 65 once
202
Word count
620
Average sentence length
6.7
Length
6:48
Unique words · 76 once
182
Syllables per minute
182
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
136
Difficulty
Beyond ranked vocabularydifficulty

Many of this content's words are outside our ranked vocabulary list — specialised terms or name-like words — so no level reaches 95% word coverage.

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Beyond ranked vocabulary

Many of this content's words are outside our ranked vocabulary list — specialised terms or name-like words — so no level reaches 95% word coverage.

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Vocab coverage

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HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 40%
  • HSK 2 5%
  • HSK 3 9%
  • HSK 4 12%
  • HSK 5 5%
  • HSK 6 3%
  • HSK 7–9 5%
  • Not on HSK 20%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 66% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 75%, HSK 1–9 covers 80%.

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WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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; target45Lv 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]29Lv 1
有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)17Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)15Lv 1
这个zhè gè(pronoun) this; (adjective) this14Lv 1
弦xiánbow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring; chord (segment of curve); hypotenuse; CL:根[gen1]13Lv 109
根gēnroot; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry); CL:條|条[tiao2]12Lv 10
中国zhōng guóChina11Lv 15
乐器lè qìmusical instrument; CL:件[jian4]11Lv 72
吹chuīto blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through10Lv 25

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A 7-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 182 syllables per minute. It's 620 words long, using 182 different words. Difficulty: Beyond ranked vocabulary — many of its words are outside our ranked vocabulary list, so no level reaches 95% word coverage. Words to learn first include 的, 是, 有.