My friend blamed feng shui | INTERMEDIATE

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2026/05/30

Speech duration: 4min 59s
Unique characters · 55 once: 177
Word count: 718
Average sentence length: 8.0
Length: 5:38
Unique words · 53 once: 145
Syllables per minute: 204
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 127
Difficulty Intermediatedifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the Intermediate range. How difficulty works: Intermediate · 31

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 31 sits in the Intermediate 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 2

Lv 18

Lv 31

Lv 141

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 62%
HSK 2 12%
HSK 3 10%
HSK 4 1%
HSK 5 6%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 3%
Not on HSK 8%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 83% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 89%, HSK 1–9 covers 92%.

Words to learn first

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Starting from zero (Beginner), learn 110 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 110 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	74	Lv 1
我	wǒ	I; me; my	43	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	31	Lv 1
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	28	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	19	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	19	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.)	17	Lv 1
觉得	jué de	to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)	16	Lv 1
她	tā	she	15	Lv 1
风水	fēng shuǐ	feng shui; geomancy	15	Lv 141
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]	13	Lv 1
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
客户	kè hù	client; customer	12	Lv 14
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]	12	Lv 1
东西	dōng xī	east and west; thing; stuff; person; CL:個\|个[ge4],件[jian4]	11	Lv 2
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)	11	Lv 1
着	zhe	a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add; to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in; aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state; to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply	11	Lv 1
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	10	Lv 2
更	gèng	to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard); more; even more; further; still; still more	10	Lv 2

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A 6-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 204 syllables per minute. It's 718 words long, using 145 different words. Difficulty: Intermediate, Level 31 — it suits Intermediate learners: knowing the common words through Level 31 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 的, 我, 好.