How Pinyin changed China?

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2025/11/29

Speech duration: 11min 3s
Unique characters · 27 once: 172
Word count: 1,282
Average sentence length: 7.0
Length: 11:50
Unique words · 52 once: 163
Syllables per minute: 181
Script: Simplified 简
Sentences: 283
Difficulty Advanceddifficulty Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 185 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 185 sits in the Advanced range. How difficulty works: Advanced · 185

Difficulty is estimated from vocabulary: knowing common words through Level 185 covers about 95% of the words in this content — roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20, the coverage research links to comfortable listening. Level 185 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 4

Lv 92

Lv 185

Lv 197

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

HSK 1 61%
HSK 2 7%
HSK 3 12%
HSK 4 2%
HSK 5 1%
HSK 6 0%
HSK 7–9 0%
Not on HSK 17%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 82% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 83%, HSK 1–9 covers 83%.

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

The 20 most-used of these 100 words.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning (CC-CEDICT)	In video	Level
这个	zhè gè	(pronoun) this; (adjective) this	92	Lv 1
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	67	Lv 1
拼音	pīn yīn	phonetic writing; pinyin (Chinese romanization)	45	Lv 197
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]	43	Lv 1
汉字	hàn zì	Chinese character(s)	43	Lv 185
所以	suǒ yǐ	therefore; as a result; so; the reason why	36	Lv 2
我	wǒ	I; me; my	33	Lv 1
他们	tā men	they; them	32	Lv 1
很	hěn	very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)	31	Lv 1
不	bù	no; not so; (bound form) not; un-	27	Lv 1
有	yǒu	to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)	27	Lv 1
写	xiě	to write; used in 寫意\|写意[xie4 yi4]	25	Lv 4
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]	23	Lv 1
时候	shí hòu	time; length of time; moment; period	22	Lv 1
知道	zhī dào	to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]	22	Lv 1
可以	kě yǐ	can; may; possible; able to; not bad; pretty good	21	Lv 1
中国	zhōng guó	China	19	Lv 15
人	rén	person; people; CL:個\|个[ge4],位[wei4]	18	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-	17	Lv 2
我们	wǒ men	we; us; ourselves; our	17	Lv 1

Is this video right for my Chinese?

A 12-minute video from BlaBla Chinese with 11 minutes of speech at 181 syllables per minute. It's 1,282 words long, using 163 different words. Difficulty: Advanced, Level 185 — it suits Advanced learners: knowing the common words through Level 185 covers about 95% of its words, roughly 1 unfamiliar word in 20. Words to learn first include 这个, 的, 拼音.