Words for HSK  by katsa   22. Apr 2013

May I ask where the words needed for the HSK tests are located in the levels very basic - basic - intermediate - advanced - very advanced?

(like: 'very basic' covers HSK 1, 'basic' HSK 2 and so on?)

or is it possible to add the "topics" 'hsk1', 'hsk2', ... into the topic list?
oliver  Superman Site Supporter   22. Apr 2013

I think the HSK lists are rather large. How many words are there?
katsa   11. May 2013

hsk 1 - 150 words
hsk 2 - 300 words
hsk 3 - 600 words
hsk 4 - 1200 words
hsk 5 - 2500 words
hsk 6 - 5000 words

now, for example, i have about 3600 "active words".
but as very basic consists of 487, basic of 1058 and intermediate of 11892,
i know that i have the 1545 most basic words;
+ about 2000 other words which were randomly chosen from a pool of almost 12000 intermediate words.

so i guess i have all the vocab i need for hsk4 (1200), but do i have all i need for hsk5 (2500)? i dont know. probably not, thanks to random choosing from a large pool where most of them are not needed for hsk.

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