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.
Showing 3551–3557 of 3,557 · page 72 of 72
住zhùHSK 1to live
- to live
- to reside
- to stay
- to stop
- to cease
- (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
桌子zhuōziHSK 1table
- table
- desk
- CL:张,套
字zìHSK 1character
- character
- word
- letter
- symbol
- character
- word
- CL:个
- courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
昨天zuótiānHSK 1yesterday
坐zuòHSK 1to sit
- to sit
- to take a seat
- to take (a bus, airplane etc)
- to bear fruit
- surname Zuo
- variant of 座
做zuòHSK 1to make
- to make
- to produce
- to write
- to compose
- to do
- to engage in
- to hold (a party etc)
- (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc)
- to become (husband and wife, friends etc)
- (of a thing) to serve as
- to be used for
- to assume (an air or manner)
做饭zuò fànHSK 1to prepare a meal
- to prepare a meal
- to cook
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.
HSK 2 Chinese listening episodes
HSK 3 Chinese listening episodes
HSK 4 Chinese listening episodes
HSK 5+ Chinese listening episodes
How to actually learn HSK 5 vocabulary
Reading a word on a page and catching it at speed in a sentence are different skills. The HSK listening section tests the second.
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The method in practice
Hear HSK 5 vocabulary in real Mandarin
Each HSK 5 episode uses this word band, with the transcript, pinyin and line-by-line English. Five free episodes after a one-tap magic-link sign-in — no password, no payment.