HSK 5 Vocabulary List: 3,599 Words (HSK 3.0)
HSK 5 has 3,599 words in HSK 3.0, 1,599 of them new at this level (the old HSK 2.0 list had 2,500). Fluentide has 292 free stories at the Advanced (HSK 5+) level that use them, with transcript and pinyin.
By Haoshan Hong · Native Mandarin speaker · Updated October 2026
Hear HSK 5 words in a real story
《经济学人》劝华盛顿：让中国抄美国AI
The Economist Urges Washington: Let China Copy American AI — Why Banning Distillation Would Backfire
2 min
What is on the HSK 5 word list?
The other 2,000 come from HSK 1–4. They cover news, business, academic and literary register: the vocabulary of newspapers, lectures, and film dialogue.
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HSK 5 word list
All 3,557 words from the official HSK 3.0 syllabus, the 1,579 new at HSK 5 first. The syllabus counts 3,599 because a few words are listed once per reading; here each appears once.
Pinyin from the syllabus, definitions from CC-CEDICT. Tap a word for its other senses.
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含量hánliàngHSK 5content
- content
- quantity contained
含有hányǒuHSK 5to contain
- to contain
- including
汗水hànshuǐHSK 5sweat
- sweat
- perspiration
好评hǎopíngHSK 5favorable criticism
- favorable criticism
- positive evaluation
好奇hàoqíHSK 5inquisitive
- inquisitive
- curious
- inquisitiveness
- curiosity
好运hǎoyùnHSK 5good luck
- good luck
好转hǎozhuǎnHSK 5to improve
- to improve
- to take a turn for the better
- improvement
合héHSK 5to close
- to close
- to join
- to fit
- to be equal to
- whole
- together
- round (in battle)
- conjunction (astronomy)
- 1st note of pentatonic scale
- 100 ml
- one-tenth of a peck
- measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- old variant of 盒
- variant of 合
合法héfǎHSK 5lawful
- lawful
- legitimate
- legal
合理hélǐHSK 5rational
- rational
- reasonable
- sensible
- fair
合同hétóngHSK 5contract
- contract
- agreement
- CL:份
合影héyǐngHSK 5group photo
- group photo
- to take a group photo
合作hézuòHSK 5to cooperate
- to cooperate
- to collaborate
- to work together
河流héliúHSK 5river
- river
- CL:条
盒饭héfànHSK 5meal in a partitioned box
- meal in a partitioned box
黑hēiHSK 5black
- black
- dark
- sinister
- secret
- shady
- illegal
- to hide (sth) away
- to vilify
- (loanword) to hack (computing)
- short name for Heilongjiang 黑龙江
红hóngHSK 5red
- red
- popular
- revolutionary
- bonus
- surname Hong
- used in 女红
猴子hóuziHSK 5monkey
后果hòuguǒHSK 5consequences
- consequences
- aftermath
厚度hòudùHSK 5thickness
- thickness
呼吸hūxīHSK 5to breathe
- to breathe
忽视hūshìHSK 5to neglect
- to neglect
- to overlook
- to disregard
- to ignore
胡同hútòngHSK 5lane
- lane
- alley
- CL:条
湖húHSK 5lake
- lake
蝴蝶húdiéHSK 5butterfly
- butterfly
- CL:只
互动hùdòngHSK 5to interact
- to interact
- interactive
户外hùwàiHSK 5outdoors
- outdoors
- (attributive) outdoor
花费huāfèiHSK 5expense
- expense
- cost
- to spend (time or money)
- expenditure
滑huáHSK 5to slip
- to slip
- to slide
- slippery
- smooth
- sly
- slippery
- not to be trusted
- surname Hua
化huàHSK 5to make into
- to make into
- to change into
- -ization
- to ... -ize
- to transform
- abbr. for 化学
- variant of 花
化学huàxuéHSK 5chemistry
- chemistry
- chemical
划huá / huàHSK 5to delimit
- to delimit
- to transfer
- to assign
- to plan
- to draw (a line)
- stroke of a Chinese character
- to row
- to paddle
- profitable
- worth (the effort)
- it pays (to do sth)
- to cut
- to slash
- to scratch (cut into the surface of sth)
- to strike (a match)
画面huàmiànHSK 5scene
- scene
- tableau
- picture
- image
- screen (displayed by a computer)
- (motion picture) frame
- field of view
话费huàfèiHSK 5call charge
- call charge
话题huàtíHSK 5subject (of a talk or conversation)
- subject (of a talk or conversation)
- topic
环节huánjiéHSK 5(zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc)
- (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc)
- (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
缓解huǎnjiěHSK 5to bring relief
- to bring relief
- to alleviate (a crisis)
- to dull (a pain)
缓慢huǎnmànHSK 5slow
- slow
- unhurried
- sluggish
黄瓜huángguāHSK 5cucumber
- cucumber
- CL:条
黄金huángjīnHSK 5gold
- gold
- golden (opportunity)
- prime (time)
灰huīHSK 5ash
- ash
- dust
- lime
- gray
- discouraged
- dejected
灰色huīsèHSK 5gray
- gray
- ash gray
- grizzly
- pessimistic
- gloomy
- dispirited
- ambiguous
恢复huīfùHSK 5to reinstate
- to reinstate
- to resume
- to restore
- to recover
- to regain
- to rehabilitate
挥huīHSK 5to wave
- to wave
- to brandish
- to command
- to conduct
- to scatter
- to disperse
回收huíshōuHSK 5to recycle
- to recycle
- to reclaim
- to retrieve
- to recover
- to recall (a defective product)
汇率huìlǜHSK 5exchange rate
- exchange rate
婚礼hūnlǐHSK 5wedding ceremony
- wedding ceremony
- wedding
- CL:场
火锅huǒguōHSK 5hotpot
- hotpot
- (basketball) a blocked shot
- a block
伙huǒHSK 5(bound form) meals (as in 伙食)
- (bound form) meals (as in 伙食)
- companion
- partner
- group
- classifier for groups of people
- to combine
- together
- variant of 伙
伙伴huǒbànHSK 5companion
- companion
- pal
- partner
- business associate
Stories that use these HSK 5 words
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