HSK 4 Vocabulary

HSK 4 Vocabulary List: 1,200 Words

HSK 4 assumes 1,200 cumulative words — 600 of them new at this level. They cover opinion, comparison, and evaluation — the abstract vocabulary you need to say what you think, not just what happened.

By Haoshan HongNative Mandarin speakerUpdated July 2026

Hear HSK 4 words in a real story

克里斯蒂安·贝尔用了二十年，盖出十二栋房子，只为让寄养的兄弟姐妹不再被分开

Christian Bale Spent Twenty Years Building Twelve Houses So Foster Brothers and Sisters Would Stop Being Split Up

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HSK 4 episodes to hear these words in

Every episode below is written inside the HSK 4 word band and read at HSK 4 speed. Press play — no account needed for the first few.

HSK 3–4 Chinese listening episodes

Crossing the Panama Canal Now Costs Up to $5 Million, as War and Drought Push Prices to a Record

HSK 3-4

运河

yùnhé

Crossing the Panama Canal Now Costs Up to $5 Million, as War and Drought Push Prices to a Record

No Monarch Butterfly Ever Finishes Its Own Migration — the Trip Takes Four Generations

HSK 3-4

帝王蝶

dìwángdié

No Monarch Butterfly Ever Finishes Its Own Migration — the Trip Takes Four Generations

A 2,000-Year-Old Wall Dug Up Under a Paris Hospital May Show Where Paris Began

HSK 3-4

古墙

gǔqiáng

A 2,000-Year-Old Wall Dug Up Under a Paris Hospital May Show Where Paris Began

Laid Off and Still Job Hunting, He Has Helped Pull Nearly 60,000 Fake Jobs Off LinkedIn

HSK 3-4

骗子

piànzi

Laid Off and Still Job Hunting, He Has Helped Pull Nearly 60,000 Fake Jobs Off LinkedIn

The Economist's Joke Memo: A Company Tries to Fix Its Staff's Sleep, and Everything Goes Wrong

HSK 3-4

睡觉

shuìjiào

The Economist's Joke Memo: A Company Tries to Fix Its Staff's Sleep, and Everything Goes Wrong

NASA Spots the Moon's Biggest New Crater in Years — a Warning for Future Moon Bases

HSK 3-4

月球

yuèqiú

NASA Spots the Moon's Biggest New Crater in Years — a Warning for Future Moon Bases

Caviar Got Cheap Enough to Feed a Toddler — and a Big Reason Is Chinese Fish Farms

HSK 3-4

鱼子酱

yúzǐjiàng

Caviar Got Cheap Enough to Feed a Toddler — and a Big Reason Is Chinese Fish Farms

The Man Who Bought Volvo Just Handed His Carmaker to Someone Who Is Not Family

HSK 3-4

公司

gōngsī

The Man Who Bought Volvo Just Handed His Carmaker to Someone Who Is Not Family

A Museum Wouldn't Show George Lucas the Painting He Asked For, So He Spent Fifteen Years and a Billion Dollars Building His Own

HSK 3-4

博物馆

bówùguǎn

A Museum Wouldn't Show George Lucas the Painting He Asked For, So He Spent Fifteen Years and a Billion Dollars Building His Own

MIT Built a Battery You Can Swallow. It Powered a Device Inside a Pig for Three Days, Then Dissolved.

HSK 3-4

电池

diànchí

MIT Built a Battery You Can Swallow. It Powered a Device Inside a Pig for Three Days, Then Dissolved.

Berlin Had Sixteen Months to Switch Envelopes. The New Ones Ran Out in Two Weeks, and People Due in Prison Stayed Home.

HSK 3-4

信封

xìnfēng

Berlin Had Sixteen Months to Switch Envelopes. The New Ones Ran Out in Two Weeks, and People Due in Prison Stayed Home.

Christian Bale Spent Twenty Years Building Twelve Houses So Foster Brothers and Sisters Would Stop Being Split Up

HSK 3-4

寄养

jìyǎng

Christian Bale Spent Twenty Years Building Twelve Houses So Foster Brothers and Sisters Would Stop Being Split Up

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Hear HSK 4 vocabulary in real Mandarin

Every HSK 4 episode is written inside this word band and read at HSK 4 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.