Bridge into independent reading with vocabulary for culture, nature, opinions, causes, and more complete narratives.
Choose five new words, write one sentence with each, then meet them again in an HSK 3 story before adding more.
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.
All 1,000 words from HSK 1 through HSK 3.
Short sentences make a word easier to understand—and much easier to remember.
我有一个办法。
I have a solution.他发现门开了。
He discovered that the door was open.晚上很安静。
It is quiet at night.爷爷给我讲故事。
Grandpa tells me a story.今天的月亮很亮。
The moon is bright today.故事里的世界很大。
The world inside the story is vast.shoe
名chest; heart; mind
名New Year
名news
名fresh (experience, food etc); freshness
形letter; mail
动、名credit card
名(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit
动、形luggage
名interest (desire to know about sth); interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby
名to go on vacation; to have a holiday; to take leave
动to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
动、名to choose; to pick
动to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
动term; semester
名tooth; ivory
名toothbrush
名sheep; goat
名to raise (animals); to bring up (children)
动to request; to require
动、名page; leaf
量surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled
形、副in total; altogether
副erhua variant of 一塊|一块[yi1 kuai4]
名、副same; like
形after; later
名before; formerly
名that level or higher; that amount or more; the above-mentioned
名apart from; other than
名to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
动that level or lower; that amount or less
名same; ordinary
形one side; either side
副straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
副music
名bank
名bank card
名drink; beverage
名ought to; should; must
动influence; effect
动、名to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using
动mail; post
名traveler; tourist; (online gaming) guest player
名game (CL:場|场[chang3]); to play
名mailbox; post office box
名to have sth to do with; to relate to
动、介famous; well-known
形useful
形(once) again; also
副badminton; shuttlecock
名language
名raincoat
名to meet; to run into; to come across
动to meet
动land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation
名(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity; (bound form) member
后缀to wish; to want
动to exceed; to climb over
副the moon
名sports competition
名athlete
名we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me
代dirty; filthy
形what's to be done
—how; what kind
代station; to stand
动to open up; to spread
动、量chief; head
动、后缀to worry; to feel anxious; to feel a sense of urgency; to be in a hurry
形to shine; to illuminate
动to take care of; to show consideration
动photograph
名to take a photograph
动until
动only; merely; just
副paper (CL:張|张[zhang1],沓[da2]); classifier for documents, letters etc
名can only; obliged to do sth
—merely; only; just; nothing but; simply
副、连so long as; provided; if
连only have ...; there is only ...
连within; among; in; middle; center
名the middle; the inside; in the middle; within; between; among
名at last; in the end
副seed; species
量important; significant; major
形weekend
名main; principal; major; primary
形to take note of; to pay attention to
动to stay in hospital; to be hospitalized
动Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[ci2 dian3], which has entries for words of one or more characters)
名bicycle; bike
名son; child
后缀(bound form) general; overall; to sum up
副、（动、形）always
副mouth; beak
名best; had better ...; it would be best to ...
副final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
名recently; soon
名to be a guest or visitor
动school assignment; homework
名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.