Comprehensible input Chinese | Spy: don’t get caught! | lower intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2026/05/16
2026/05/16
Speech duration
10min 30s
Unique characters · 50 once
177
Word count
1,215
Average sentence length
7.1
Length
12:57
Unique words · 54 once
160
Syllables per minute
155
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
229
Difficulty
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HSK 3.0 coverage

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  • HSK 1 63%
  • HSK 2 8%
  • HSK 3 6%
  • HSK 4 1%
  • HSK 5 1%
  • HSK 6 0%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 21%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 78% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 79%, HSK 1–9 covers 79%.

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WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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]85Lv 1
我wǒI; me; my81Lv 1
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; target60Lv 1
范fànpattern; model; example; surname Fan46Lv 67
萨sàused in 菩薩|菩萨[pu2 sa4]; used in transliteration; surname Sa42Lv 44
觉得jué deto think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)35Lv 1
萱xuānorange day-lily (Hemerocallis flava); old variant of 萱[xuan1]; old variant of 萱[xuan1]; old variant of 萱[xuan1]; old variant of 萱[xuan1]33Unranked
蔚yùplace name; Artemisia japonica; luxuriant; resplendent; impressive; surname Yu33Unranked
卧底wò dǐto hide (as an undercover agent); an insider (in a gang of thieves); a mole31Lv 44
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)28Lv 1

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A 13-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 11 minutes of speech at 155 syllables per minute. It's 1,215 words long, using 160 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 是, 我, 的.