HSK 2 Vocabulary

HSK 2 Vocabulary List: 300 Words

HSK 2 assumes 300 cumulative words — 150 of them new at this level. They cover travel, shopping, weather, health, and simple plans — the first vocabulary that lets you handle a short exchange without English.

By Haoshan HongNative Mandarin speakerUpdated July 2026

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他把七十英亩麦地还给了水：现在那里住着一百四十种鸟，和两种快没有了的鱼

He Gave Seventy Acres of Century-Old Barley Ground Back to the Water — Now It Holds 140 Bird Species and Two Fish That Had Almost Stopped Reproducing

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Every episode below is written inside the HSK 2 word band and read at HSK 2 speed. Press play — no account needed for the first few.

HSK 2 Chinese listening episodes

One Person Spent Twenty-Two Months Rebuilding the Mexico You Could See But Never Reach in Red Dead Redemption 2 — and He Is Giving It Away Free on 16 September

HSK 2

地图

dìtú

One Person Spent Twenty-Two Months Rebuilding the Mexico You Could See But Never Reach in Red Dead Redemption 2 — and He Is Giving It Away Free on 16 September

He Was 8-2 With a 1.79 ERA and He Will Not Pitch Again This Year: "He Loves Being a Two-Way Player. But Right Now, It Just Doesn't Make Any Sense."

HSK 2

棒球

bàngqiú

He Was 8-2 With a 1.79 ERA and He Will Not Pitch Again This Year: "He Loves Being a Two-Way Player. But Right Now, It Just Doesn't Make Any Sense."

Krakatoa's Child Woke Up at Midnight, Was Heard Seven Hundred Kilometres Away and Stranded 270,000 People — Without Killing a Single One

HSK 2

火山

huǒshān

Krakatoa's Child Woke Up at Midnight, Was Heard Seven Hundred Kilometres Away and Stranded 270,000 People — Without Killing a Single One

The Sweetener in Your Sugar-Free Gum Turned Up Alongside Heart Attacks in 17,710 People — and the Researchers Went Out of Their Way to Say That Is Not the Same as Causing Them

HSK 2

无糖

wútáng

The Sweetener in Your Sugar-Free Gum Turned Up Alongside Heart Attacks in 17,710 People — and the Researchers Went Out of Their Way to Say That Is Not the Same as Causing Them

They Dyed the White Doves Blue and Sent Them Up for a Gender Reveal — Days Later They Turned Up by the River, and the Blue Would Not Wash Off

HSK 2

鸽子

gēzi

They Dyed the White Doves Blue and Sent Them Up for a Gender Reveal — Days Later They Turned Up by the River, and the Blue Would Not Wash Off

He Gave Seventy Acres of Century-Old Barley Ground Back to the Water — Now It Holds 140 Bird Species and Two Fish That Had Almost Stopped Reproducing

HSK 2

湿地

shīdì

He Gave Seventy Acres of Century-Old Barley Ground Back to the Water — Now It Holds 140 Bird Species and Two Fish That Had Almost Stopped Reproducing

Bhutan Has Gone Three Years Without a Single Rabies Death — Because It Stopped Only Treating People and Started Vaccinating Dogs

HSK 2

疫苗

yìmiáo

Bhutan Has Gone Three Years Without a Single Rabies Death — Because It Stopped Only Treating People and Started Vaccinating Dogs

Snoop Dogg Will Pay Someone $10,000 a Month to Eat Ice Cream — and It Started on His Father's Dairy Farm

HSK 2

冰淇淋

bīngqílín

Snoop Dogg Will Pay Someone $10,000 a Month to Eat Ice Cream — and It Started on His Father's Dairy Farm

The UN Voted to Change the World Map — Because It Has Been Shrinking Africa for 450 Years

HSK 2

地图

dìtú

The UN Voted to Change the World Map — Because It Has Been Shrinking Africa for 450 Years

They Buried Thousands of Pairs of Underpants in 25 Countries — and Won an Ig Nobel for It

HSK 2

土壤

tǔrǎng

They Buried Thousands of Pairs of Underpants in 25 Countries — and Won an Ig Nobel for It

New York Banned AI for 600,000 Schoolchildren — and the Loudest Critics Say It Didn't Go Far Enough

HSK 2

作业

zuòyè

New York Banned AI for 600,000 Schoolchildren — and the Loudest Critics Say It Didn't Go Far Enough

Apple's First Folding iPhone Lands September 9 — the New CEO's First Test, Eight Days Into the Job

HSK 2

折叠

zhédié

Apple's First Folding iPhone Lands September 9 — the New CEO's First Test, Eight Days Into the Job

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Hear HSK 2 vocabulary in real Mandarin

Every HSK 2 episode is written inside this word band and read at HSK 2 speed, so words stick because you have heard them in a sentence. Full transcript, pinyin toggle, and line-by-line English on every episode. Five free episodes after a one-tap magic-link sign-in — no password, no payment.