一级 · 初出茅庐Foundations Stage (初等)
Official HSK1 Vocabulary (HSK 3.0): Complete List of 500 Words
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Official Words
500
Required Hanzi
300
Key Focus
Greetings, family, numbers, time, and basic shopping.
Method
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Interactive Catalog
Complete HSK1 Vocabulary List
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364 words found
| Audio | Hanzi | Pinyin | Meaning (EN) | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 的 | de | of; ~'s (possessive particle), (used after an attribute), (used to form a nominal expression), (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis), also pr. [dì] or [di] in poetry and songs | ||
| 了 | le / liǎo | 1. [le] Aspectual particle: completed action marker after a verb (e.g. 吃了, 买了, 看了)., 2. [le] Modal particle at sentence end: change of state or new situation (e.g. 下雨了, 太好了, 该走了, 阴天了)., 3. [liǎo] Verb: to finish, complete, settle, conclude (e.g. 了结, 完了, 没完没了)., 4. [liǎo] Verb: to understand, know clearly, comprehend (e.g. 了解, 明了)., 5. [liǎo] Potential complement (V + 得/不 + 了): can / cannot do (e.g. 受不了, 了不起, 不得了, 忘不了). | ||
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my | ||
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only), correct; right; true, (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well, (adverb for emphatic assertion) | ||
| 你 | nǐ | you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您) | ||
| 在 | zài | to exist; to be alive, (of sb or sth) to be (located) at, (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) | ||
| 不 | bù | no; not so, (bound form) not; un- | ||
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is, (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 意 intentional) | ||
| 他 | tā | he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant), (used before sb's name for emphasis), (used as a meaningless mock object), (literary) other | ||
| 这 | zhè | (pronoun) this; these, (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun), (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhèi], esp. in Beijing) | ||
| 个 | gě | used in 自个儿 | ||
| 人 | rén | person; people | ||
| 和 | hé | old variant of 和 | ||
| 我们 | wǒ men | we, us, ourselves, our | ||
| 说 | shuì | to persuade | ||
| 好 | hǎo | good, appropriate; proper, all right!, (before a verb) easy to, (before a verb) good to, (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so, (verb complement indicating completion), (of two people) close; on intimate terms, (after a personal pronoun) hello | ||
| 一 | yī | one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yāo] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | ||
| 会 | huì | can; to have the skill; to know how to, to be likely to; to be sure to, to meet; to get together, meeting; gathering, (suffix) union; group; association, (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [huǐ]) | ||
| 都 | Dū | surname Du | ||
| 上 | shǎng | used in 上声 | ||
| 来 | lái | to come, (used as a substitute for a more specific verb), hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来), ever since (as in 自古以来), for the past (amount of time), (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世), (between two verbs) in order to, (after a round number) approximately, (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来) | ||
| 很 | hěn | (adverb of degree), quite, very, awfully | ||
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to (a place), (of a time etc) last, just passed, to send, to remove, to get rid of, to reduce, to be apart from in space or time, to die (euphemism), to play (a part), (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth, (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker), (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation) | ||
| 她 | tā | she | ||
| 想 | xiǎng | to think (about), to think of; to devise, to think (that); to believe (that), to desire; to want (to), to miss (feel wistful about the absence of) | ||
| 没有 | méi yǒu | haven't, hasn't, doesn't exist, to not have, to not be | ||
| 能 | Néng | surname Neng | ||
| 那 | Nā | surname Na | ||
| 他们 | tā men | they | ||
| 看 | kān | to look after, to take care of, to watch, to guard | ||
| 做 | zuò | to make; to produce, to write; to compose, to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc), (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc), (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for, to assume (an air or manner) | ||
| 什么 | shén me | what?, something, anything | ||
| 点 | diǎn | point, dot, drop, speck, o'clock, point (in space or time), to draw a dot, to check on a list, to choose, to order (food in a restaurant), to touch briefly, to hint, to light, to ignite, to pour a liquid drop by drop, (old) one fifth of a two-hour watch 更, dot stroke in Chinese characters, classifier for items | ||
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not | ||
| 大 | dà | big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 姐), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother) | ||
| 下 | xià | down, downwards, below, lower, later, next (week etc), second (of two parts), to decline, to go down, to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc), measure word to show the frequency of an action | ||
| 中 | Zhōng | China, Chinese, surname Zhong | ||
| 里 | lǐ | variant of 里 | ||
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now, at present, at the moment, modern, current, nowadays | ||
| 年 | Nián | surname Nian | ||
| 多 | duō | many; much, too many; in excess, (after a numeral) ... odd, how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duó]), (bound form) multi-; poly- | ||
| 吗 | má | (coll.) what? | ||
| 天 | tiān | day, sky, heaven | ||
| 太 | tài | highest, greatest, too (much), very, extremely | ||
| 呢 | ne | particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?"), particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?"), particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?"), (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action, particle indicating strong affirmation | ||
| 小 | xiǎo | small, tiny, few, young | ||
| 时候 | shí hou | time, length of time, moment, period | ||
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work, (of a machine) to operate, job, work, task | ||
| 事 | shì | matter, thing, item, work, affair | ||
| 后 | Hòu | surname Hou |
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The official HSK1 syllabus under HSK 3.0 covers 500 vocabulary items and requires mastery of 300 individual characters alongside relevant syntactic patterns.
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