2025 HSK examination syllabus

HSK 7–9
vocabulary.

七至九级词汇

Explore the combined advanced vocabulary band used for HSK 7–9, spanning academic, professional, literary, and specialized contexts.

5,600new words
11,000cumulative words
What to learn

Build flexible comprehension across disciplines and infer precise meaning from context, structure, and register.

How to use this list

Treat this as a reference collection. Prioritize words from material you actually read rather than trying to memorize all 5,600 at once.

Why one HSK 7–9 page? The current standard defines levels 7, 8, and 9 as one combined advanced vocabulary band. Your final level is determined by performance in the advanced exam, so the official word list is presented together.

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.

List scope

Only the 5,600 words assigned to HSK 7–9.

HSK 7–9 only 5,600HSK 1–9 combined 11,000
Official 2025 syllabus

HSK 7–9 vocabulary

Words 3,601–3,700 of 5,600Hear any word · Save useful vocabulary

opportunity to live; hope of success; vigor; vitality

life (a person's whole life); in one's entire life

(of a law, contract, agreement, ban etc) to come into force; to go into effect; to become operative

rigid; stiff; lacking naturalness or smoothness; awkward; forced

to come out on top; to win (in an election, contest etc)

overbearing; arrogant bully

construction; to carry out construction or large-scale repairs

to act discourteously; forgive me (for my impropriety)

out of order (of machine); not working properly

(of a plane, ship etc) to have an accident (plane crash, shipwreck, vehicle collision etc)

separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)

sometimes good, sometimes bad

to tell the truth; to tell it as it is

time and place; world of a particular locale and era

live (e.g. broadcast or recording); what is actually happening

current trends; the present situation; how things are going

lit. to seek truth from facts (idiom); fig. to be practical and realistic

feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)

to order sb around; (coll.) to handle (a draught animal, tool, machine etc)

mission; long-term task to which one devotes oneself

(idiom) unprecedented in history

impossible to resist (idiom); an irresistible force

angle from which one observes an object; (fig.) perspective; viewpoint; frame of reference

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.