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162.Sunglasses Weren’t Invented for Fashion | 墨镜最开始不是为了时尚？Comprehensible Input Chinese (HSK 3–4)

YouTube · Story Learning Chinese with Annie · Learner content · 2026/01/23
2026/01/23
Speech duration
13min 27s
Unique characters · 87 once
267
Word count
1,146
Average sentence length
8.4
Length
13:45
Unique words · 92 once
236
Syllables per minute
127
Script
Simplified 简
Sentences
202
Difficulty
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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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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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HSK 3.0 coverage

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

  • HSK 1 57%
  • HSK 2 9%
  • HSK 3 11%
  • HSK 4 8%
  • HSK 5 2%
  • HSK 6 2%
  • HSK 7–9 0%
  • Not on HSK 12%

Cumulative: HSK 1–4 covers 84% of the words, HSK 1–6 covers 88%, HSK 1–9 covers 88%.

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The 20 most-used of these 179 words.

WordPinyinMeaning (CC-CEDICT)In videoLevel
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; target113Lv 1
墨镜mò jìngsunglasses; CL:副[fu4]48Unranked
我wǒI; me; my38Lv 1
很hěnvery; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)37Lv 1
你nǐyou (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.)29Lv 1
会huìcan; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]); (bound form) to reckon accounts28Lv 1
是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4]28Lv 1
那nà(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case); (archaic) many; beautiful; how; variant of 哪[na3]; old variant of 挪[nuo2]; surname Na; surname Nuo27Lv 1
我们wǒ menwe; us; ourselves; our26Lv 1
在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)23Lv 1

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A 14-minute video from Story Learning Chinese with Annie with 13 minutes of speech at 127 syllables per minute. It's 1,146 words long, using 236 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 的, 墨镜, 我.