A library of little birdhouses, each holding a glowing word pebble, as the myna files a new one away

All 11,000

The word map

Every word gets a little house here: all 11,000 from the official 3.0 syllabus, 11,130 of them spoken aloud. Not sure which band is yours? Take the five-minute placement. Looking for one word? Search the whole aviary.

Band 1The first 300 words. Everything else is built from these.Band 2200 more for daily life: family, food, getting around.Band 3500 words that unlock real conversations and short stories.Band 4A thousand words. This is where reading starts feeling easy.Band 51600 words, audio on the entries, with sentences ready to read.Band 61800 words, sentences all in, audio you can tap.Bands 7 to 9 summitThe advanced 5600, all with two example sentences.
The older map (HSK 2.0) & the status report
How the old HSK 2.0 maps to 3.0

The six old levels line up with the seven new bands by where most of their words actually sit, and almost every old word survived the move.

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Most words land in 3.0 band11 to 23456 to 9

Counted from the official lists: 4853 of the old 5000 words, 97.06%, reappear in 3.0. 147 exist only in 2.0, and 3.0 adds 6147 new words on top.

See every band and level in full, with where each old word landed

The radical shedCharacters are built from parts that mean things. Open thirty drawers of them.
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