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2024/12/17

Speech duration: 7min 36s
Unique characters · 75 once: 231
Word count: 793
Average sentence length: 8.2
Length: 9:56
Unique words · 94 once: 212
Syllables per minute: 153
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 142
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 110 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 110 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 110

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 110 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 110 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 9

Lv 37

Lv 110

Lv 185

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 56%
HSK 2 6%
HSK 3 14%
HSK 4 5%
HSK 5 4%
HSK 6 1%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 14%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 81% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 86%, HSK 1–9 covers 86%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 169 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	58	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]	33	Lv 1
你	nǐ	you (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.)	29	Lv 1
雪	xuě	snow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc); CL:場\|场[chang2]; surname Xue	20	Lv 29
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	16	Lv 1
冬天	dōng tiān	winter; CL:個\|个[ge4]	14	Lv 45
冰	bīng	ice; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine; CL:塊\|块[kuai4]; variant of 冰[bing1]	14	Lv 23
在	zài	to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)	13	Lv 1
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	13	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	11	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	11	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	11	Lv 2
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	11	Lv 1
一个	yī gè	a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)	10	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	10	Lv 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]	9	Lv 1
去	qù	to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)	9	Lv 1
吗	ma	(coll.) what?; used in 嗎啡\|吗啡[ma3 fei1]; (question particle for "yes-no" questions)	9	Lv 1
吧	ba	bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc); to puff (on a pipe etc); (onom.) bang; (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?; ...I presume.; (onom.) smack!; abbr. for 貼吧\|贴吧[tie1 ba1]	9	Lv 1
可以	kě yǐ	can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good	8	Lv 1

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A 10-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 8 minutes of speech at 153 syllables per minute. It's 793 words long, using 212 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 110 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 110 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 是, 你.