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 4,001–4,100 of 5,600Hear any word · Save useful vocabulary

(a person's) constitution; underlying physical condition; physical makeup; (of an organization, society etc) structural soundness

to replace (a damaged component with a new one, an injured player with a substitute player, full-time workers with casual workers etc)

动、名

to exchange; to replace; to substitute for; to switch

enduring while the world lasts (idiom); eternal

lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper; right and unalterable

family love and joy; domestic bliss

antenna; aerial; (fig.) connection to higher authorities; channel to influential people

to adjust; to redistribute (resources etc); (fig.) (of an activity) to provide variety in one's daily life; to serve as a change of pace

regulations; rules; code of conduct; ordinances; statutes

to debug; to adjust components during testing

to cease trading (temporarily or permanently); to close down

unobstructed; clear; (of writing or thinking) coherent; fluent

to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc); (of a locality) to have a transportation service

to order the arrest of sb as criminal; to list as wanted

(statistics) compared with the same period of the previous year; year on year; year over year

the corresponding time period (in a different year etc); concurrent

see 同仁市[Tong2 ren2 Shi4]; (formal) colleague; fellow member (of an organization or profession)

cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests; obliged to collaborate towards common goals

an overall plan; to plan an entire project as a whole

to submit articles for publication; to contribute (writing)

congenial; agreeable; to speculate; to profiteer

形、动

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.