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 288 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
美国佛州李尔喷气机坠毁 九人全部遇难
Learjet 60 Crashes in Palm Beach County, Florida, Killing All Nine On Board
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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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二手èrshǒuHSK 5indirectly acquired
- indirectly acquired
- second-hand (information, equipment etc)
- assistant
二维码èrwéimǎHSK 52D barcode
- 2D barcode
- matrix code
- (esp.) QR code
发表fābiǎoHSK 5to issue
- to issue
- to publish
发布fābùHSK 5to release
- to release
- to issue
- to announce
- to distribute
发达fādáHSK 5well-developed
- well-developed
- flourishing
- to develop
- to promote
- to expand
- (literary) to achieve fame and fortune
- to prosper
发挥fāhuīHSK 5to display
- to display
- to exhibit
- to bring out implicit or innate qualities
- to express (a thought or moral)
- to develop (an idea)
- to elaborate (on a theme)
发明fāmíngHSK 5to invent
- to invent
- an invention
- CL:个
发起fāqǐHSK 5to originate
- to originate
- to initiate
- to launch (an attack, an initiative etc)
- to start
- to propose sth (for the first time)
发言fāyánHSK 5to make a speech
- to make a speech
- statement
- utterance
- CL:个
发音fāyīnHSK 5to pronounce
- to pronounce
- pronunciation
- to emit sound
罚fáHSK 5to punish
- to punish
- to penalize
- to fine
- variant of 罚
罚款fákuǎnHSK 5to fine
- to fine
- penalty
- fine (monetary)
法院fǎyuànHSK 5court of law
- court of law
- court
番茄fānqiéHSK 5tomato
- tomato
翻fānHSK 5to turn over
- to turn over
- to flip over
- to overturn
- to rummage through
- to translate
- to decode
- to double
- to climb over or into
- to cross
- variant of 翻
繁荣fánróngHSK 5prosperous
- prosperous
- booming
反fǎnHSK 5contrary
- contrary
- in reverse
- inside out or upside down
- to reverse
- to return
- to oppose
- opposite
- against
- anti-
- to rebel
- to use analogy
- instead
- abbr. for 反切 phonetic system
反而fǎn’érHSK 5on the contrary
- on the contrary
- instead
反复fǎnfùHSK 5repeatedly
- repeatedly
- over and over
- to upend
- unstable
- to come and go
- (of an illness) to return
反应fǎnyìngHSK 5to react
- to react
- to respond
- reaction
- response
- reply
- chemical reaction
- CL:个
反映fǎnyìngHSK 5to mirror
- to mirror
- to reflect
- mirror image
- reflection
- (fig.) to report
- to make known
- to render
反正fǎnzhèngHSK 5anyway
- anyway
- in any case
- to come over from the enemy's side
返回fǎnhuíHSK 5to return to
- to return to
- to come (or go) back
范围fànwéiHSK 5range
- range
- scope
- limit
- extent
- CL:个
方fāngHSK 5square
- square
- power or involution (math.)
- upright
- honest
- fair and square
- direction
- side
- party (to a contract, dispute etc)
- place
- method
- prescription (medicine)
- just when
- only or just
- classifier for square things
- surname Fang
- abbr. for square or cubic meter
方案fāng’ànHSK 5plan
- plan
- program (for action etc)
- proposal
- proposed bill
- CL:个,套
防fángHSK 5to protect
- to protect
- to defend
- to guard against
- to prevent
防止fángzhǐHSK 5to prevent
- to prevent
- to guard against
- to take precautions
房屋fángwūHSK 5house
- house
- building
- CL:所,套
仿佛fǎngfúHSK 5to seem
- to seem
- as if
- seemingly
- alike
- similar
访问fǎngwènHSK 5to visit
- to visit
- to call on (a person or place)
- (computing) to visit (a website)
- to access (a network resource etc)
- (Tw) to interview (e.g. for a report or feature story)
- CL:次
飞行fēixíngHSK 5to fly
- to fly
- flight
飞行员fēixíngyuánHSK 5pilot
- pilot
- aviator
非洲FēizhōuHSK 5Africa
- Africa
- abbr. for 阿非利加洲
分别fēnbiéHSK 5to part
- to part
- to leave each other
- to distinguish
- to tell apart
- difference
- distinction
- in different ways
- differently
- separately
- individually
- respectively
分布fēnbùHSK 5to scatter
- to scatter
- to distribute
- to be distributed (over an area etc)
- (statistical, geographic) distribution
分类fēnlèiHSK 5to classify
- to classify
分离fēnlíHSK 5to separate
- to separate
分配fēnpèiHSK 5to distribute
- to distribute
- to assign
- to allocate
- to partition (a hard drive)
分手fēnshǒuHSK 5to part company
- to part company
- to split up
- to break up
分析fēnxīHSK 5to analyze
- to analyze
- analysis
- CL:个
分享fēnxiǎngHSK 5to share (esp. sth enjoyable, useful or beneficial)
- to share (esp. sth enjoyable, useful or beneficial)
纷纷fēnfēnHSK 5one after another
- one after another
- in succession
- one by one
- continuously
- diverse
- in profusion
- numerous and confused
- pell-mell
奋斗fèndòuHSK 5to strive
- to strive
- to struggle
丰富多彩fēngfù-duōcǎiHSK 5richly colorful
- richly colorful
风格fēnggéHSK 5style
- style
风俗fēngsúHSK 5social custom
- social custom
- CL:个
风险fēngxiǎnHSK 5risk
- risk
- hazard
疯狂fēngkuángHSK 5crazy
- crazy
- frenzied
- wild
否定fǒudìngHSK 5to negate
- to negate
- to deny
- to reject
- negative (answer)
- negation
Stories that use these HSK 5 words
Each one is a Fluentide Advanced (HSK 5+) story, written inside that word band. Press play; the first few need no account.
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How to actually learn HSK 5 vocabulary
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Hear HSK 5 vocabulary in real Mandarin
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