Everything in HSK 7–9
What HSK 7–9 is made of, in full. Practice and the exam are dealt from these lists and nothing else.
Sentences
- Saying what something is, and isn't, in writing: 乃, 并非, 可谓 2 sentences
- Hereby, in notices: 兹 and 特此 1 sentence
- Suit yourself: 爱 and 不 round the same verb, as in 爱去不去 1 sentence
- At a loss what to do: 不知…是好 and 不知…才好 2 sentences
- Telling someone they should know better: 你说你一个… 1 sentence
- Putting others' needs first, in official writing: 想…之所想，急…之所急 1 sentence
- Having everything, or nothing: 要…有…，要…有…, and 要…没…，要…没… 2 sentences
- To be honest: 老实说, 说真的, 不瞒你说 2 sentences
- If you ask me: 要我说, 让我说 1 sentence
- Agreeing, and coming round: 可不, 可不是嘛, 你还别说 2 sentences
- Here's a case in point: 这不 1 sentence
- Telling someone off, gently: 不是我说你, 你看你, 真是的 2 sentences
- Hang on, and not at all: 不是, and 说到哪儿去了 2 sentences
- A passage in order: by time, by place, or by reasoning 2 sentences
- Staying on a subject, and turning to a new one 1 sentence
- Leaving out what the sentence before has said, or the one after will say 2 sentences
Questions
- What, when and why, in writing: 何, as in 何时, 为何, 有何 2 sentences
- Asking formally whether something can be done: 可否 1 sentence
- Could it be that? 莫非 1 sentence
- Questions that aren't asking: 何必, 何苦, 何不, 何尝 2 sentences
- How could it come to that? 何至于 and 谈何 2 sentences
- What then, and like this, in talk: 怎么着 and 这么着 2 sentences
People, things and places
- 我 for our, in formal writing: 我国, 我市, 我方 1 sentence
- That and this, in writing: 彼 and 此 2 sentences
- Words made with 后 for after, and 亲 for on the side of: 后现代, 亲政府 2 sentences
- Endings for a view, a sort of person, a field, a system: 观, 鬼, 界, 坛, 制 2 sentences
- By and for oneself: 自…自…, as in 自言自语 1 sentence
- Here, there and everywhere: 东…西… and 七…八… 2 sentences
Numbers, money and time
- A number of: 若干 1 sentence
- Measure words for more things: 重, 截, 缕, 码, 枚, 摊, 丸, 则, 幢, 宗 2 sentences
- A bout of something: 通, as in 骂了一通 1 sentence
- Counting visits, not visitors: 人次 1 sentence
- On an occasion, formally: 值此…之际 1 sentence
- Outside of, and as well as: 之余 1 sentence
Verbs
- Dying to: 巴不得 and 恨不得 2 sentences
- Not worth it: 犯不着, and 犯得着 in a question 2 sentences
- Nothing worth doing: 没什么看头, 有什么看头, 没什么好说的 2 sentences
- Except: …除外 1 sentence
- To some degree: 有所, before a verb 1 sentence
- Giving, formally: 予以, before a verb 1 sentence
- To death, in talk: 得要命 and 得要死 2 sentences
- As far as this: 到这个地步 and 到这份上 2 sentences
- Doing something fully, or ending up so: a verb with 个 or 得个 2 sentences
- If you do it, do it properly: the verb twice round 就, then 个, as in 玩就玩个痛快 1 sentence
- Each thing when it's due: 该…就…，该…就… 1 sentence
Done, going on, been
How much, how often, and not
- Greatly, and extremely: 大为, 极度, 万分, 何等 2 sentences
- Especially, and quite: 尤为, 分外, 颇 2 sentences
- A little: 略, 略微, 稍稍, 微 2 sentences
- More and more: 越发, 愈加, 日趋 2 sentences
- Words that end in 然 or 为, and say how: 显然, 极为 2 sentences
- All, every one: 皆, 均, 尽, 一概, 概, and in talk 通通, 统统 2 sentences
- Only, alone: 唯, 唯独, 唯有 2 sentences
- On the whole: 大体 1 sentence
- For now: 姑且, 暂且 2 sentences
- At once, and there and then: 即, 即时, 随即, 就此 2 sentences
- Once something is done: 一经 1 sentence
- Soon, and when the time comes: 尽早, 早日, 届时 2 sentences
- Always, all along: 历来, 向来 2 sentences
- Still, and not yet: 尚, as in 尚未 and 尚不 2 sentences
- Once more, and again and again: 再度, 屡次, 屡屡, 频, 连连, 时时 2 sentences
- One after another, and on and on: 相继, 一连, 一个劲儿 2 sentences
- Now this, now that: 时而, and 忽…忽… or 时…时… 2 sentences
- At the slightest thing: 动不动就 1 sentence
- By rights: 按理, 按说 1 sentence
- Can't help it, and bound to: 不由得, 不免, 免不了 2 sentences
- Taking the chance, while there's time: 趁机, 趁早 2 sentences
- With all one's might: 极力, 竭力, 拼命, 百般 2 sentences
- As much as you like: 尽情, 任意 2 sentences
- Openly, without shame: 公然, 大肆 2 sentences
- Without leave, or by force: 擅自, 私自, 强行 2 sentences
- Firmly, and against all advice: 断然, 毅然, 执意 2 sentences
- On purpose: 有意, 刻意 2 sentences
- In a rush, and all of a sudden: 火速, 骤然 2 sentences
- Completely, of how two things differ: 截然 1 sentence
- Close by, or all the way on purpose: 就近 and 专程 2 sentences
- As planned, and as usual: 如期, 照常, 照例, 照样 2 sentences
- Blindly, for no good reason, in talk: 瞎 1 sentence
- In one go, all together, single-handed: 一举, 一并, 一手 2 sentences
- One by one: 逐一 1 sentence
- Not necessarily: 不见得 1 sentence
- Never, not for anything: 绝不, 万万 2 sentences
- Be sure to, and don't, in writing: 务必, 切记, 勿, 切勿 2 sentences
- No way to, and no need to: 无从, 无须 2 sentences
- Nothing to be done, nothing to say: 无可, and 无…可…, as in 无话可说 2 sentences
- Certainly, bound to: 必定, 必将, 势必 2 sentences
- No harm in it, and might as well: 不妨, 索性 2 sentences
- Sure enough, and to everyone's surprise: 果真, 竟 2 sentences
- Just the other way, and stubbornly so: 反倒, 偏偏, 愣 2 sentences
- Plainly: 分明 1 sentence
- No wonder: 怪不得, 难怪 1 sentence
- As it happened: 碰巧, 恰巧 1 sentence
- Rather too: 未免 1 sentence
- In the end, after all: 终究 1 sentence
- You can't imagine how much: 别提多…了 1 sentence
- Not even: the verb, then 都不 or 都没 and the verb again, as in 看都没看 1 sentence
- Half and half: 半…半…, as in 半信半疑 1 sentence
- Neither one nor the other: 不…不… and 非…非… 2 sentences
- Every one, nothing left out: 无…不…, as in 无话不说 1 sentence
With, from, to, than
- From, in talk: 打 1 sentence
- In front of someone: 当着 1 sentence
- On a subject: 就 1 sentence
- According to, and in the spirit of: 依, 本着 2 sentences
- Based on, and in view of: 基于, 鉴于, before a phrase or a whole clause 2 sentences
- Through, after: 经, as in 经研究 2 sentences
- Than, in writing: a describing word, then 于 or 过 1 sentence
- No less than, and second only to: 不亚于, 仅次于 2 sentences
- Nothing more so than: 莫过于 1 sentence
- Depending on: 视…而定 1 sentence
- For someone's sake: 看在…的面子上 1 sentence
- Offering thanks or greetings, formally: 向…致以… 1 sentence
Particles
- Only, that's all: 罢了 and 而已, often with 无非, 不过 or 只是 before 2 sentences
- So be it, and either way: 也罢, and …也好，…也罢 2 sentences
- The old 了, in set phrases: 矣 1 sentence
- And all that, waved away: 什么…的…的 1 sentence
And, but, because
- What is meant by something, and so-called: 所谓, and 所谓…，就是… 2 sentences
- If, in writing: 若, 倘若, 假若, 假使 2 sentences
- Even if, in writing: 纵然 or 纵使…，也… 1 sentence
- Luckily, or else: 幸亏, 幸好, 好在, with 不然 or 否则 after 2 sentences
- Besides, what's more: 况且, 加之, 且 2 sentences
- And even: 乃至 1 sentence
- For one thing, for another: 一来…二来…, 一则…二则… 1 sentence
- Either one or the other, in writing: 或…，或…, and 或多或少 2 sentences
- Either way, it hardly matters: 可…可…, as in 可有可无 1 sentence
- Would rather: 宁可, 宁愿, 情愿, with 也不 after 2 sentences
- Rather than this, I'd sooner that: 与其…，宁可… or 宁愿… 1 sentence
- Granted, but: the same word round 是 or 倒是, as in 好看是好看 1 sentence
- Don't go by what it looks like: 别看…，… 1 sentence
- Although, in talk: 虽说…，但… or 可… 1 sentence
- Whether or not: 无论…与否，都… 1 sentence
- Anyone who, in writing: 凡…者，均可… 1 sentence
- No matter how: 任…也… 1 sentence
- Must, and not unless: 非得, and 非得…才… 2 sentences
- Because, and so, in writing: 因…而…, and 故 2 sentences
- So much that: 以至于 1 sentence
- So as to, and so as not to: 以, 免得, 以防 2 sentences
- For the sake of: 为…起见 1 sentence
- Not only that, but: …不说，还… 1 sentence
- Never mind that, not even this: 别说…，…都 or 也… 1 sentence
- Let alone: …，更不用说…了, and 连…都…，更不用说…了 1 sentence
- If not even this, then how that: …尚且…，何况… 1 sentence
- Without one thing, yet the other: 不…而…, as in 不约而同 1 sentence
- Both together, and all: 连…带… 1 sentence
- Long sentences of many parts, one link inside another 1 sentence
- In short, all in all: 总的来说, 总而言之, 简而言之, 概括来说, 综上所述 2 sentences
- At bottom: 归根到底 1 sentence
- In other words, and the other way round: 换句话说, 反过来说 2 sentences
- That said: 话是这么说, 话又说回来 2 sentences
- Even granting that, and in any case: 退一步说, 无论如何 2 sentences
- With that, as a result: 这样一来 1 sentence