HSK 1 Vocabulary List 词汇表
The complete HSK 1 vocabulary list from the 2025 HSK syllabus — 300 words with tone-marked pinyin, parts of speech, and English meanings. Browse the words below, or switch to characters. Every word links to its word page, while each character links to its stroke-order page.
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All 300 HSK 1 words
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| Word | Pinyin | POS | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 爱 | ài | v. | to love; to be fond of; to like; affection; to be inclined (to do sth) |
| 八 | bā | num. | eight; 8 |
| 爸 | bà | — | father |
| 吧 | ba | part. | (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK? |
| 白 | bái | adj. / adv. | white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain |
| 百 | bǎi | num. | hundred; numerous; all kinds of |
| 班 | bān | n. / mw. | team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift |
| 半 | bàn | num. / adv. | half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half |
| 包 | bāo | v. / n. / mw. | to cover; to wrap; to hold; to include; to take charge of |
| 杯 | bēi | — | cup |
| 本 | běn | mw. | root; stem; origin; source; this; the current; original; inherent; originally |
| 边 | biān | n. / suf. | side; edge; margin; border; boundary; simultaneously |
| 便 | biàn | adv. | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate |
| 病 | bìng | n. / v. | illness; disease; to fall ill; defect |
| 不 | bù | adv. | no; not so; (bound form) not; un- |
| 菜 | cài | n. | dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type |
| 茶 | chá | n. | tea; tea plant |
| 常 | cháng | adv. | always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant |
| 唱 | chàng | v. | to sing; to call loudly; to chant |
| 超 | chāo | v. | to exceed; to overtake; to surpass; to transcend; to pass; to cross; ultra- |
| 车 | chē | n. | car; vehicle; machine; to shape with a lathe; Kangxi radical 159 |
| 吃 | chī | v. | to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy |
| 出 | chū | v. | to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise |
| 穿 | chuān | v. | to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate |
| 床 | chuáng | n. | bed; couch; classifier for beds |
| 打 | dǎ | v. / prep. | to beat; to strike; to hit; to break; to type; to mix up; to build; to fight |
| 大 | dà | adj. | big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 姐); greatly |
| 蛋 | dàn | — | egg |
| 到 | dào | v. | to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time) |
| 道 | dào | n. / mw. | road; path; principle; truth; morality; reason; skill; method; Dao (of Daoism) |
| 得 | dé | part. / v. | to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud |
| 的 | de | part. | of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute) |
| 弟 | dì | — | younger brother |
| 第 | dì | pref. | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 六 "sixth") |
| 点 | diǎn | mw. / n. | point; dot; drop; speck; o'clock; point (in space or time); to draw a dot |
| 电 | diàn | n. / v. | lightning; electricity; electric (bound form) |
| 东 | dōng | n. | east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord |
| 都 | dōu | adv. | all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all |
| 读 | dú | v. | to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school) |
| 对 | duì | adj. / prep. / v. / mw. | right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding |
| 多 | duō | adj. / v. / pron. / num. / adv. | many; much; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 儿 | ér | — | child |
| 二 | èr | num. | two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid |
| 饭 | fàn | n. | cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee |
| 房 | fáng | — | house |
| 飞 | fēi | v. | to fly |
| 非 | fēi | v. / adv. / pref. | to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame |
| 分 | fēn | mw. / v. / n. | to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate |
| 服 | fú | v. | clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) |
| 高 | gāo | adj. / n. | high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific) |
| 哥 | gē | — | elder brother |
| 歌 | gē | n. | song; to sing |
| 个 | gè | mw. | (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier) |
| 给 | gěi | v. / prep. | to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb) |
| 工 | gōng | — | work |
| 公 | gōng | adj. | public; collectively owned; common |
| 狗 | gǒu | n. | dog |
| 关 | guān | v. / n. | mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up |
| 贵 | guì | adj. | expensive; noble; precious; (honorific) your |
| 国 | guó | n. | country; nation; state; (bound form) national |
| 果 | guǒ | — | fruit |
| 还 | hái | adv. | still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly |
| 孩 | hái | — | (bound form) child |
| 汉 | hàn | — | Han ethnic group |
| 好 | hǎo | adj. / adv. / v. | good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to |
| 号 | hào | n. / mw. | ordinal number; day of a month; mark; sign; business establishment; size |
| 喝 | hē | v. | to drink; variant of 嗬 |
| 和 | hé | prep. / conj. | (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [hàn]); (math.) sum |
| 很 | hěn | adv. | (adverb of degree); quite; very; awfully |
| 后 | hòu | n. | back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post- |
| 候 | hòu | — | to wait |
| 话 | huà | — | dialect |
| 欢 | huān | — | joyous |
| 回 | huí | v. / mw. | to circle; to go back; to turn around; to answer; to return; to revolve |
| 会 | huì | v. | can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet |
| 火 | huǒ | n. / adj. | fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine) |
| 机 | jī | — | (bound form) machine |
| 鸡 | jī | n. | fowl; chicken; (slang) prostitute |
| 几 | jǐ | pron. / num. | how much; how many; several; a few |
| 家 | jiā | n. / mw. / suf. | home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 间 | jiān | mw. / n. | between; among; within a definite time or space; room |
| 见 | jiàn | v. | to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view |
| 件 | jiàn | mw. | item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc |
| 叫 | jiào | v. / prep. | to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called |
| 姐 | jiě | — | older sister |
| 今 | jīn | — | now |
| 九 | jiǔ | num. | nine; 9 |
| 觉 | jué | — | a nap |
| 开 | kāi | v. | to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start |
| 看 | kàn | v. | to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider |
| 可 | kě | conj. / adv. | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit |
| 客 | kè | — | customer |
| 课 | kè | n. | subject; course; class; lesson; to levy; tax; form of divination |
| 口 | kǒu | n. / mw. | mouth |
| 块 | kuài | mw. | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc |
| 来 | lái | v. | to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) |
| 老 | lǎo | adj. / pref. / adv. | prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order… |
| 了 | le | part. | (completed action marker) |
| 冷 | lěng | adj. | cold |
| 里 | lǐ | n. | li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood |