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HSK 3 vocabulary

500 words · official HSK 3.0 syllabus (2025)

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(of a person) short

to move (i.e. relocate oneself)

class (group of students)

to take care of (a matter)

way of handling sth

half of the day

to eat till full

to take down (in writing)

notebook (stationery)

competition (sports etc)

(intransitive) to change

not only (... but also ...)

not long (after)

to pile on top of one another

in common usage

to leave hospital

junior high school (abbr. for 初级中学)

spring (season)

large and small

giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

to score a point (in a competition, test etc)

if (coming after a conditional clause)

electronic book

to talk (with sb)

(not only ...) but also

to have a high temperature (from illness)

fāngbiànmiàn

instant noodles

to have a holiday or vacation

to feel relieved

to dismiss students at the end of the school day

husband and wife

to be interested (in sth)

(literary) hard

high speed rail

park (for public recreation)

to turn off (a machine or device)

to be concerned about

to pay attention to

to celebrate a festival

(coll.) for a long time

the year after next

the day after tomorrow

garden (for flowers, ornamental plants etc)

to persevere with

to inspect a ticket

(TV or radio) program

(of a period of time) long

wine (esp. rice wine)

card (loanword)

to hold a meeting

to start an engine

air conditioning

kuàngquánshuǐ

to come from (a place)

prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity

old man or woman

pleasantly cool (weather etc)

classifier for vehicles

(coll.) to chat

to study abroad

student studying abroad

difficult (to...)

difficult problem

unpleasant to hear

to make an effort

to take a picture

beer (loanword)

(of an aircraft or rocket) to take off

the year before last

the day before yesterday

to request leave of absence

to give a dinner party

to sweep (with a brush or broom)

(loanword) sofa

(a person's) height

to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc)

father's younger brother

four seasons, namely: spring 春, summer 夏, autumn 秋 and winter 冬

to hear (sth said)

hair (on the head)

parts of the country other than where one is

(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal

foreign language

(of trains etc) late

wèishēngjiān

washing machine

camera (abbr. for 照相机)

(college, university) president

fresh (experience, food etc)

interest (desire to know about sth)

to go on vacation

to raise (animals)

that level or higher

that level or lower

straight (in a straight line)

to have sth to do with

land used for growing plants

(bound form) person engaged in a certain field of activity

sports competition

we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to)

what's to be done

to take care of

to take a photograph

to take note of

to stay in hospital

Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters)

(bound form) general

to be a guest or visitor

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