the bad boy is in prison now | Comprehensible input | Beginner Chinese stories

YouTube · Lazy Chinese · Learner content · 2025/01/14
2025/01/14
Speech duration
5min 13s
Unique characters · 37 once
134
Word count
505
Average sentence length
5.3
Length
6:11
Unique words · 39 once
111
Syllables per minute
132
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
130
Difficulty
Beyond ranked vocabularydifficulty

Many of this content's words are outside our ranked vocabulary list — specialised terms or name-like words — so no level reaches 95% word coverage.

How difficulty works
Beyond ranked vocabulary

Many of this content's words are outside our ranked vocabulary list — specialised terms or name-like words — so no level reaches 95% word coverage.

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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.

HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 67%
  • HSK 2 7%
  • HSK 3 8%
  • HSK 4 5%
  • HSK 5 0%
  • HSK 6 2%
  • HSK 7–9 1%
  • Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 86% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, HSK 1–9 covers 88%.

Words to learn first

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Starting from zero (Beginner), learn 86 words to reach 95% of this video’s words.

The 20 most-used of these 86 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
我wǒI; me; my50Lv 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; target35Lv 1
同桌tóng zhuōdesk-mate; seat-mate26Unranked
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])23Lv 1
嗯ng(a groaning sound); (nonverbal grunt as interjection); OK, yeah; what?; interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement22Lv 2
不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-19Lv 1
对duìright; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching14Lv 1
年级nián jígrade; year (in school, college etc); CL:個|个[ge4]14Lv 20
好hǎogood; 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 to13Lv 1
一个yī gèa; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)12Lv 1

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A 6-minute video from Lazy Chinese with 5 minutes of speech at 132 syllables per minute. It's 505 words long, using 111 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 我, 的, 同桌.