2025 HSK examination syllabus

HSK 1
vocabulary.

一级词汇

Build the everyday core: people, places, time, food, simple actions, and the words that hold a basic sentence together.

300new words
300cumulative words
What to learn

Recognize high-frequency words quickly and combine them into short statements and questions.

How to use this list

Read each example aloud twice, then open an HSK 1 story and look for the same word in a new sentence.

2026 rollout: This syllabus was published in November 2025 and became effective in July 2026. The official second-round HSK 3.0 global trial is scheduled for September 20, 2026, so confirm the syllabus and test format with your center.

Useful examples

Meet six HSK 1 words in context.

Short sentences make a word easier to understand—and much easier to remember.

jiāhome; family

我回家。

I’m going home.
kànto look; to read

我看书。

I read a book.
朋友péngyoufriend

他是我的朋友。

He is my friend.
今天jīntiāntoday

今天我回家。

Today I’m going home.
喜欢xǐhuanto like

我喜欢他。

I like him.
tīngto listen

请听我说。

Please listen to me.
Official 2025 syllabus

HSK 1 vocabulary

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vegetable; greens (CL:棵[ke1]); dish (of food) (CL:樣|样[yang4],道[dao4],盤|盘[pan2])

to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to go through (e.g. a tunnel); to cross (e.g. a street)

university student; college student

of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)

(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed

前缀

to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list)

量、(名)

inn; old-style hotel (CL:家[jia1]); (bound form) shop; store

I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint

many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess

形、动、代、(数、副)

how much?; how many?; (phone number, student ID etc) what number?

to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate

量、(动、名)

(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual

good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good

(literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet

名、量

to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer

动、(量)

can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to

to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)

to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start

to drive a car (or train etc); (slang) to post sexual content online; to make a sexual joke

Vocabulary levels, pinyin, parts of speech, and counts follow the official 2025 HSK examination syllabus, published by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation and effective July 2026. English glosses are adapted from CC-CEDICT under CC BY-SA 4.0; context may change the best translation.