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HSK 3.0 Band 3 — vocabulary changes

Last updated: 2026-07-18

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Band 3 of HSK 3.0 contains 292 words that did not exist in any HSK 2.0 list, plus 608 words moved here from another HSK 2.0 level. Full lists with pinyin and meaning below.

New words in Band 3 (292)

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
步	Bù	surname Bu
保	Bǎo	Bulgaria; Bulgarian; abbr. for 保加利亚
费	Fèi	surname Fei
付	Fù	surname Fu
福	Fú	surname Fu; abbr. for Fujian province 省
国庆	Guó qìng	National Day
古	Gǔ	surname Gu
华人	Huá rén	ethnic Chinese person or people
环	Huán	surname Huan
金	Jīn	surname Jin; surname Kim (Korean); Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
联合国

Words moved to Band 3 from another 2.0 level (608)

Word	Pinyin	From HSK 2.0	Meaning
后面	hòu mian	HSK 1	the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
苹果	píng guǒ	HSK 1	apple
前面	qián miàn	HSK 1	ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qián mian]
服务员	fú wù yuán	HSK 2	waiter; waitress; attendant; customer service personnel
咖啡	kā fēi	HSK 2	coffee (loanword)
开始	kāi shǐ	HSK 2	to begin; beginning; to start; initial
每	měi	HSK 2	each; every

胜	shèng	victory; success; to beat; to defeat; to surpass; victorious; superior to; to get the better of; better than; surpassing; superb (of vista); beautiful (scenery); wonderful (view); (Taiwan pr. [shēng]) able to bear; equal to (a task)

下来	xià lai	to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)

者	zhě	(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this

挂	guà	HSK 4	to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; classifier for sets or clusters of objects; (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam)

赶	gǎn	HSK 4	to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)

地区	dì qū	HSK 5	local; regional; district (not necessarily formal administrative unit); region; area; as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city)

配合	pèi hé	HSK 5	matching; fitting in with; compatible with; to correspond; to fit; to conform to; rapport; to coordinate with; to act in concert with; to cooperate; to become man and wife; to combine parts of machine

武术	wǔ shù	HSK 5	military skill or technique (in former times); all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development); self-defense; tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage); also called kungfu 功夫