HSK word lists
HSK 7–9 vocabulary list
The 5,585 words of new HSK band 7–9, the advanced stage of the 2021 standard, with pinyin and English meanings.
5,585 words
Ordered by pinyin忍饥挨饿starving; famished人均per capita任命to appoint; (job) appointment忍耐to endure; to bear with人品character; moral strength; integrity; (coll.) looks; appearance; bearing人气popularity; personality任期term of office; CL:屆|届[jiè]人情human emotions; social relationship; friendship任人宰割to get trampled on (idiom); to be taken advantage of人身person; personal人事personnel; human resources人手manpower; staff人体human body人为artificial; man-made人文humanities; human affairs忍心to have the heart to do sth; to steel oneself to a task人性human nature; humanity韧性toughness人行道sidewalk人选choice of person; candidate任意any; arbitrary人缘儿erhua variant of 人緣|人缘[rén yuán]人造man-made; artificial认证to authenticate; to approve人质hostage认知cognition; cognitive任职to hold a post; to take office日程schedule; itinerary日复一日day after day日后sometime; someday (in the future)日前the other day; a few days ago日趋(increasing) day by day; (more critical) with every passing day日新月异daily renewal, monthly change (idiom); every day sees new developments日益day by day; more and more融to melt; to thaw冗长long and tedious; redundant容光焕发face glowing (idiom); looking radiant; all smiles融化to melt; to thaw荣获be honored with溶解to dissolve容量capacity; volume容纳to hold; to contain融洽harmonious; friendly relations容忍to put up with; to tolerate荣幸honored (to have the privilege of ...)容许to permit; to allow容颜mien; complexion荣誉honor; credit揉to knead; to massage柔和gentle; soft柔软soft入场to enter the venue for a meeting; to enter into an examination入场券admission ticket如果说if; if one were to say儒家Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kǒng zǐ] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Mèng zǐ] (c. 372-c. 289 BC)入境to enter a country入侵to invade如实as things really are; realistic入手to begin (with ...) (typically used in a structure such as 從|从[cóng] + {noun} + 入手[rù shǒu]: "to begin with {noun}; to take {noun} as one's starting point"); to receive; to obtain; to buy入选to be included among those selected for儒学Confucianism如意as one wants; according to one's wishes; ruyi scepter, a symbol of power and good fortune如愿以偿to have one's wish fulfilled如醉如痴lit. as if drunk and stupefied (idiom); intoxicated by sth软弱weak; feeble软实力soft power (in international relations)瑞雪timely snow润moist; glossy; sleek; to moisten; to lubricate弱点weak point; failing若干a certain number or amount; how many?弱势vulnerable; weak撒to let go; to cast撒谎to tell lies赛车auto race; cycle race赛跑race (running); to race (running)散布to disseminate散发to distribute; to emit三番五次over and over again (idiom)三角triangle三维three-dimensional; 3D桑拿sauna (loanword)丧生to die; to lose one's life嗓子throat; voice扫除to clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe out骚乱disturbance; riot; to create a disturbance扫描to scan扫墓to sweep a grave (and pay one's respects to the dead person)骚扰to disturb; to cause a commotion扫兴to spoil things; to dampen spirits; to feel deflated; to be dispirited嫂子(coll.) older brother's wife; sister-in-law僧人monk纱cotton yarn; muslin刹车to brake (when driving); to stop傻瓜idiot; fool杀害to murder沙龙salon (loanword)杀手killer; murderer沙滩beach; sandy shore砂糖granulated sugar鲨鱼shark
Practice HSK 7–9 with flashcards
Each list contains the words with an exact simplified-spelling match in our CC-CEDICT dictionary, ordered by pinyin. The official word lists are slightly larger; spellings outside the dictionary do not appear here. Read how the new HSK compares with the old one.
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