The most ridiculous court cases in China - Chinese Comprehensible Input - Intermediate

YouTube · Xiaogua Chinese · Learner content · 2025/11/07

2025/11/07

Speech duration: 6min 37s
Unique characters · 64 once: 192
Word count: 774
Average sentence length: 7.5
Length: 9:07
Unique words · 75 once: 185
Syllables per minute: 159
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 141
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 228 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 228 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 228

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 228 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 228 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 59

Lv 228

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HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 63%
HSK 2 7%
HSK 3 7%
HSK 4 7%
HSK 5 2%
HSK 6 3%
HSK 7–9 1%
Not on HSK 10%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 85% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 90%, HSK 1–9 covers 90%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 146 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	31	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]	26	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]	25	Lv 1
差评	chà píng	poor evaluation; adverse criticism	23	Unranked
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.)	22	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	19	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	16	Lv 1
店主	diàn zhǔ	shop owner	15	Lv 89
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	15	Lv 1
法官	fǎ guān	judge (in court)	15	Lv 9
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	14	Lv 1
多	duō	many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-	14	Lv 2
说	shuō	to persuade; to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine; variant of 說\|说[shuo1]	14	Lv 1
这	zhè	(pronoun) this; these; (coll.) this; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)	14	Lv 1
他	tā	(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])	13	Lv 1
外卖	wài mài	(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal; takeout (business); takeout (meal)	13	Lv 228
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	13	Lv 1
可以	kě yǐ	can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good	12	Lv 1
吗	ma	(coll.) what?; used in 嗎啡\|吗啡[ma3 fei1]; (question particle for "yes-no" questions)	12	Lv 1
赢	yíng	to beat; to win; to profit	10	Lv 5

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A 9-minute video from Xiaogua Chinese with 7 minutes of speech at 159 syllables per minute. It's 774 words long, using 185 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 228 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 228 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 是, 了.