As the new HSK standards were released in March 2021, we’ve spent this time analyzing the new HSK 1 vocabulary word list to provide you with a detailed analysis of the new HSK vocabulary – so you can know what’s coming, and begin preparing for the new exam.

In this post, we look at the New HSK 1 Vocabulary List for Level 1 in 2021 in detail.

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New HSK 1 Word List Infographic

New HSK 1 Word List: Vocabulary Analysis

The new HSK1 has 500 words.

The old HSK1 only had 150 words.

Good news: out of those 150 words, 138 still appear in the new HSK!
Bad news:there are 362 other new words coming in from old HSK2, 3, 4, as well as some completely new.

Example: New HSK 1 Verbs of Movement

Take, for example, Verbs of Movement.

The old HSK list used to have only 3 basic verbs – 去 (qù, “to go”) and 来 (lái, “to come”) and 回 (huí, “to return”), but the new HSK 1 list was extended to include new verbs such as 进 (jìn, “to enter”), 出 (chū, “to go out”), 到 (dào, “to reach”), 走 (zǒu, “to leave”) from the old HSK2, as well as all possible combinations of them:

Example: New HSK 1 Food-Related Nouns

Another example is the topic of food. See how many new food-related words have been added to the new HSK1:

Example: New HSK 1 Drinks-Related Nouns

The same goes for drinks. A lot of new drink-related words from other levels were added:

New HSK 1 Word List: PDF Download

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