HSK 7-9 vocabulary
The 5730 words of the advanced band (HSK 7-9) of HSK 3.0, split by the initial letter of their pinyin. Pick a letter to see its words, each with hanzi, tone-colored pinyin and English meaning.
What HSK 7-9 is
This page lists 5,730 entries for HSK 7-9, covering 5,634 distinct hanzi — the two figures differ because a word with more than one reading gets one entry per reading. Of those entries, 1,589 also carry an HSK 2.0 tag (in HSK 2.0 terms: 19 at level 4, 221 at level 5 and 1,349 at level 6), and the rest have no 2.0 tag at all. They are all new words relative to HSK 6, which has 1,171 entries of its own, and they bring the running total from HSK 1 to 11,323. The official HSK 3.0 standard (《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准》, GF 0025-2021) counts 5,636 words at this level and 3,000 characters cumulatively up to it; our list runs higher, mostly because entries are split by reading.
- Entries on this page
- 5,730
- Distinct hanzi
- 5,634
- With an HSK 2.0 tag
- 1,589
- Running total from HSK 1
- 11,323
- Official standard · words at this level
- 5,636
- Official standard · characters up to here
- 3,000
What changes here
The 7-9 band is not three separate lists: the standard treats it as one advanced pool, studied together and assessed in a single exam. It is bigger than levels 1-6 put together, and much of it is written, technical or literary vocabulary that appears rarely but matters when it does. Reading widely tends to do more here than working through the list front to back.
How to study it, and how long it takes
The arithmetic is honest and fixed: at 10 new words a day, the 5,730 entries at HSK 7-9 take about 573 days — roughly 19 months; at 20 a day, about 287 days — roughly 9 months. That only counts meeting each word once — what decides whether it stays is the reviews stacked on top, which is why the pace people actually sustain matters more than the pace they plan.
Wanyu handles that part with spaced repetition (FSRS), so each word comes back on the day you are about to forget it rather than on a fixed calendar. Every word sits inside an example sentence and has audio, on the word and on the sentence, so a new entry gets heard and used instead of only read. The app is free — no subscription, no accounts, no ads, no cloud — and for now it runs on iPhone only.
More numbers: how many words are in each HSK level. A worked routine: how to study HSK 4. Why the two standards differ: HSK 3.0 vs HSK 2.0.
Every word with its hanzi, pinyin and meaning (the glosses start from CC-CEDICT and are reviewed for Wanyu). The audio and example sentences for each one are inside the app, free.
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Frequently asked questions
How many words are in HSK 7-9?
This page lists 5,730 entries for the HSK 7-9 band (5,634 distinct hanzi: a word with two readings gets one entry per reading). The official HSK 3.0 standard counts 5,636 words at this level, and 3,000 characters cumulatively up to it.
Is HSK 7-9 (HSK 3.0) the same as HSK 7-9 (HSK 2.0)?
No. HSK 3.0 and HSK 2.0 are different standards, and the same number does not mark the same bar. That is why this list shows both tags: 1,589 of the 5,730 entries here also appeared somewhere in HSK 2.0 (spread across 2.0 levels 4 to 6), and the rest have no 2.0 tag at all.
How long does HSK 7-9 take?
That depends on your time and your starting point, but the arithmetic is fixed: at 10 new words a day, the 5,730 entries take about 573 days — roughly 19 months; at 20 a day, about 287 days — roughly 9 months. Reviews on top of that are what decide whether the words stay.