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81 more HSK 3 words under HSK 3.0, the HSK exam syllabus of November 2025: compass directions, school and study, food and household things, trains and city life, each in an original example sentence with pinyin, with the gloss, translation and some measure words on the back.

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  1. 瓶子 (píngzi) (n.)
    喝完的瓶子请放在门口。 (Hēwán de píngzi qǐng fàng zài ménkǒu.)
    bottle

    Measure word: 个 (gè): 一个瓶子

    Please put the empty bottles by the door.

    Watch out: 'A bottle of' uses 瓶 as the measure word: 一瓶水, a bottle of water.
    Things & Objects
  2. 画家 (畫家) (huàjiā) (n.)
    我爷爷年轻的时候是一位画家。 (Wǒ yéye niánqīng de shíhou shì yī wèi huàjiā.)
    painter; artist

    Measure word: 位 (wèi), polite: 一位画家

    When my grandpa was young, he was a painter.

    Note: -家 marks someone who is expert at a field: 作家 (zuòjiā), writer.
    People & Pronouns
  3. 出院 (chūyuàn) (v.)
    医生说他下个星期可以出院。 (Yīshēng shuō tā xià ge xīngqī kěyǐ chūyuàn.)
    to leave hospital; to be discharged

    The doctor says he can leave hospital next week.

    Note: The opposite is 住院 (zhùyuàn), to be admitted to hospital.
    Body & Health
  4. 菜单 (菜單) (càidān) (n.)
    这家饭馆的菜单上有很多菜的照片。 (Zhè jiā fànguǎn de càidān shang yǒu hěn duō cài de zhàopiàn.)
    menu

    Measure word: 份 (fèn) or 张 (zhāng): 一份菜单

    This restaurant's menu has photos of lots of the dishes.

    Note: Ordering from it is 点菜 (diǎncài).
    Food & Drink
  5. 搬家 (bānjiā) (v.)
    他去年搬了两次家。 (Tā qùnián bānle liǎng cì jiā.)
    to move (house)

    He moved house twice last year.

    Watch out: Separable: 搬了两次家, not 搬家了两次; 'move to' is 搬到: 搬到上海.
    Verbs
  6. 斤 (jīn) (m.)
    我买了三斤鸡蛋，花了二十块钱。 (Wǒ mǎile sān jīn jīdàn, huāle èrshí kuài qián.)
    jin (a unit of weight: half a kilogram on the mainland, 600 g in Taiwan)

    I bought three jin (1.5 kilos) of eggs for twenty yuan.

    Note: Markets in mainland China price food per 斤 (500 g); a kilogram is 公斤 (gōngjīn).
    Numbers & Measure Words
  7. 过节 (過節) (guòjié) (v.)
    我们每年都回奶奶家过节。 (Wǒmen měi nián dōu huí nǎinai jiā guòjié.)
    to celebrate a festival; to spend the holidays

    Every year we go back to Grandma's for the holidays.

    Note: Name the festival after 过: 过春节 (guò Chūnjié), to celebrate the Spring Festival.
    Ideas & Activities
  8. 晚点 (晚點) (wǎndiǎn) (v.)
    下雪了，今天的火车可能会晚点。 (Xià xuě le, jīntiān de huǒchē kěnéng huì wǎndiǎn.)
    (of a train, plane or bus) to be late; to be delayed

    It's snowing, so today's trains may be late.

    Watch out: 晚点 is for transport; a person who is late 迟到 (chídào).
    Travel & Transport
  9. 常用 (chángyòng) (adj.)
    这些是最常用的汉字。 (Zhèxiē shì zuì chángyòng de Hànzì.)
    commonly used; in everyday use

    These are the most commonly used Chinese characters.

    Note: It also goes straight before a noun: 常用词 (chángyòng cí), common words.
    Adjectives
  10. 感兴趣 (感興趣) (gǎn xìngqù) (v.)
    我对做饭不太感兴趣，可是我爱吃。 (Wǒ duì zuò fàn bù tài gǎn xìngqù, kěshì wǒ ài chī.)
    to be interested (in)

    I'm not very interested in cooking, but I love eating.

    Watch out: The pattern is 对 + topic + 感兴趣: 很多同学对这次比赛感兴趣.
    Feelings & Character

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  • Pinyin, tones, measure words and meanings checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) and the Taiwan Ministry of Education's dictionaries (the Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary and the Cross-Strait Dictionary 兩岸常用詞典, via moedict.tw) (reference only). Levels follow HSK 3.0: the HSK examination syllabus (HSK 考试大纲) published by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation in November 2025, a separate document from the 2021 standard GF 0025-2021, which it cites among its references. The headwords are level-3 words of the syllabus that the folder's earlier parts do not card, in frequency order (frequency ranks from drkameleon/complete-hsk-vocabulary, which does not list 冰激凌, 检票, 电子书 or 红绿灯; those four come just before the last two); levels checked against two transcriptions of the syllabus word list (harukicoder/hsk30 for all 81, drkameleon/complete-hsk-vocabulary for the 77 it lists). All example sentences are original.

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