春节 (Spring Festival), 洗发水 (shampoo), and 服务员 (waiter) aren't in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary list at any level. But 肥皂 (soap) is HSK 7

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• u/Chenyuluoyan·1·1 ago 2026, 15:03

  source: the official 406-page HSK 3.0 syllabus published by CLEC in November 2025 and effective from July 2026

  if you want to check the HSK level of any word yourself the analyzer i built does it disclosure: i work on hskstory.

  • u/blezman·1·1 ago 2026, 17:21

    Cool, however i thought there was no official wirdlist for hsk 7-9 and there was just a list of core and secondary vocabulary all jumbled up?

• u/ba-boo·1·1 ago 2026, 15:10

  both 服务 and 员 are hsk3, people can probably figure out themselves that 服务员 means waiter same for 春+节

  • u/AdScared7949·1·1 ago 2026, 15:23

    Learning the component parts of a word probably isn't sufficient honestly because the combinations aren't always intuitive

  • u/Inevitable-Self-2702·1·1 ago 2026, 15:55

    I would honestly recommend against this for real word learning. It's a fine exercise in comprehension, but if you really want to learn words it's best to look up what the accepted ones are and not risk making your own up. Some also can't really be understood like 水龙头 or 田鸡 without reference. Just me 2¢

  • u/Wooden_Plant7504·1·1 ago 2026, 17:54

    I agree. That is actually the point of the official list. The list is meant for learning materials to be built around those lego bricks.

• u/No-Security-7518·1·1 ago 2026, 15:26

  While I was learning English, I read dictionaries from cover to cover...and compiled a list of "all" the words I knew, which turned out to be 13,730 words. It included words like "serendipity", "otiose" and "canopy"; a whole lot of words you just don't use in everyday conversation. 10,000 words is a LOT. Does HSK cover all of the Chinese language? wow...

  • u/Putrid_Mind_4853·1·1 ago 2026, 16:28

    I think canopy and serendipity are fairly common in the speech of educated people. Otiose, not so much. 

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• u/Vex1111·1·1 ago 2026, 16:02

  a good example to show when people are asking should they study 'old' hsk2.0 materials or just the new hsk3.0 stuff. just study, it doesnt matter what it is so long as its somewhat modern

• u/wordyravena·1·1 ago 2026, 16:12

  Actually interesting HSK trivia

• u/mmtali·1·1 ago 2026, 16:41

  I mean honestly who cares? After hsk3-hsk4 you should already be using the language actively and encounter new words naturally. When i was learning English i never had a 'word list'. Just because they published a list for Chinese doesnt mean it is how you supposed to study. However due to obvious character remembering reason i support character frequency lists.

• u/porphyro·1·1 ago 2026, 17:36

  I'm kind of not surprised many of these aren't in the syllabus?

• u/ein-Name00·1·1 ago 2026, 18:23

  䭜 is not included as well

• u/moisturise-me·1·1 ago 2026, 18:26

  I could’ve sworn 服务员 is in HSK 1 (3.0). I just read it in the textbook yesterday.