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2025/04/15

Speech duration: 10min 10s
Unique characters · 73 once: 255
Word count: 1,538
Average sentence length: 7.7
Length: 15:13
Unique words · 94 once: 255
Syllables per minute: 223
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 294
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 170 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 170 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 170

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 170 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 170 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 1

Lv 5

Lv 36

Lv 170

Beyond

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 56%
HSK 2 8%
HSK 3 9%
HSK 4 9%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 15%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 82% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 85%, HSK 1–9 covers 85%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 176 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
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	103	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	68	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]	67	Lv 1
水果	shuǐ guǒ	fruit; CL:個\|个[ge4]	47	Lv 36
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	44	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	42	Lv 1
嗯	ng	(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement	40	Lv 2
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	39	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]	36	Lv 2
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	32	Lv 1
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if	29	Lv 2
它	tā	it; it (pronoun for an animal)	28	Lv 1
味道	wèi dào	flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor	25	Lv 19
呢	ne	particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?"); particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?"); particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?"); (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action; particle indicating strong affirmation; dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)	24	Lv 2
但是	dàn shì	but; however	20	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	20	Lv 1
非常	fēi cháng	very; really; unusual; extraordinary	20	Lv 2
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	19	Lv 1
然后	rán hòu	then; after that; afterwards	18	Lv 2
也	yě	also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]; surname Ye	17	Lv 1

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A 15-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 10 minutes of speech at 223 syllables per minute. It's 1,538 words long, using 255 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 170 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 170 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 是.