New HSK Vocabulary Lists

[trevelyan]

A quick note to share the good news that we've just published the official vocabulary lists for the revised HSK on our HSK test page at Popup Chinese. Hanban still serving up the old lists through its website, and these new lists aren't available in digital form elsewhere yet, so we've had to digitize these and add the appropriate pinyin, english and part-of-speech information given the test level.

Feedback is welcome. We'll be keeping these up-to-date as the test evolves over time, so if you spread these online please link to Popup Chinese as the source.

[wezel]

This is much appreciated. As I have no particular reason to take any test, I was always curious to know where my level is (around level 3 or so - not enough to be useful, but enough to be dangerous

[querido]

I thank you also. I like staying coordinated with "standards". Note that the link provided includes an Old/New HSK equivalency table.

[rezaf]

The 23rd word in your HSK level 6's list should be 拔苗助長 not 揠苗助長 as I guess it's the B part.

[amandagmu]

Are there really only 1300 words on this list???

I am utterly confused. I bought an HSK level 5 practice book on Amazon (via another rec on here) published by BLCU. The introduction says HSK Level 5 corresponds to a knowledge of roughly 2500 words and the ability to read newspaper articles and such (which I know I can do). I know that there are possibly still two versions of the HSK - the old and the new - and I also know that the former one is much more difficult, but really just 1300 words? This can't be right?

[elliott50]

@amandagmu,HSK 5 has 1300 additional words to the 1200 of HSK 1-4, making a total of 2500.

[amandagmu]

ah! thanks. I'm an idiot. :rolleyes:

[trevelyan]

Yeah. The lists are supposed to be cumulative.

And thanks for the correction rezaf -- updated.