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YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/12/02
2025/12/02
Speech duration
7min 16s
Unique characters · 80 once
235
Word count
767
Average sentence length
7.6
Length
10:21
Unique words · 101 once
223
Syllables per minute
155
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
148
Difficulty
Advanceddifficulty

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 89 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 89 sits in the Advanced range.

How difficulty works
Advanced · 89

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 89 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 89 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.

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 13%
  • HSK 4 3%
  • HSK 5 4%
  • HSK 6 1%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 15%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 80% 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 183 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 183 words.

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; target42Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)31Lv 1
口哨kǒu shàowhistle25Lv 89
他们tā menthey; them17Lv 1
语yǔdialect; language; speech; (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know17Lv 20
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-15Lv 1
你nǐyou (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.)15Lv 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]15Lv 1
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]14Lv 1
要yàoto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) to demand; to coerce; (bound form) important12Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 10-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 7 minutes of speech at 155 syllables per minute. It's 767 words long, using 223 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 89 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 89 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 很, 口哨.