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90 more HSK 4 words under HSK 3.0, the HSK exam syllabus of November 2025: school and exams, weather and nature, travel, food and everyday things, each in an original example sentence with pinyin, with the gloss, translation and some measure words on the back.

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  1. 学费 (學費) (xuéfèi) (n.)
    我们学校的学费不太贵。 (Wǒmen xuéxiào de xuéfèi bù tài guì.)
    tuition fees; school fees

    Our school's fees aren't too expensive.

    Note: To pay tuition is 交学费 (jiāo xuéfèi).
    Work & Study
  2. 歌声 (歌聲) (gēshēng) (n.)
    她的歌声让大家都安静了下来。 (Tā de gēshēng ràng dàjiā dōu ānjìngle xiàlai.)
    singing; the sound of singing

    Her singing made everyone fall quiet.

    Note: 歌声 is the sound you hear; the song itself is 歌 (gē).
    Ideas & Activities
  3. 推迟 (推遲) (tuīchí) (v.)
    他生病了，所以把出国的时间推迟了。 (Tā shēngbìng le, suǒyǐ bǎ chūguó de shíjiān tuīchí le.)
    to postpone; to put off

    He fell ill, so he put off going abroad.

    Watch out: 推迟 moves something later; 提前 (tíqián) moves it earlier.
    Verbs
  4. 中年 (zhōngnián) (n.)
    一位中年男人走进了商店。 (Yī wèi zhōngnián nánrén zǒujìnle shāngdiàn.)
    middle age; middle-aged

    A middle-aged man walked into the shop.

    Note: The stages of life: 青年 (qīngnián) youth, 中年 middle age, 老年 (lǎonián) old age.
    People & Pronouns
  5. 毛巾 (máojīn) (n.)
    洗完澡，他用毛巾擦了擦头发。 (Xǐwán zǎo, tā yòng máojīn cāle cā tóufa.)
    towel

    Measure word: 条 (tiáo): 一条毛巾

    After his shower, he rubbed the towel through his hair.
    Things & Objects
  6. 寒冷 (hánlěng) (adj.)
    这里的冬天又长又寒冷。 (Zhèlǐ de dōngtiān yòu cháng yòu hánlěng.)
    cold; frigid

    Winters here are long and cold.

    Note: Used of weather and climate: 寒冷的冬天.
    Adjectives
  7. 葡萄酒 (pútaojiǔ) (n.)
    这瓶葡萄酒放了十年了，今天终于打开了。 (Zhè píng pútaojiǔ fàngle shí nián le, jīntiān zhōngyú dǎkāi le.)
    wine (made from grapes)

    Measure word: 瓶 (píng), bottle: 一瓶葡萄酒

    This bottle of wine had been kept for ten years, and today it was finally opened.

    Note: Red wine is 红葡萄酒 or just 红酒 (hóngjiǔ); white wine is 白葡萄酒.
    Food & Drink
  8. 降落 (jiàngluò) (v.)
    这个机场很小，大飞机不能在这儿降落。 (Zhège jīchǎng hěn xiǎo, dà fēijī bù néng zài zhèr jiàngluò.)
    to land; to come down (of an aircraft)

    This airport is small, so big planes can't land here.

    Watch out: The opposite is 起飞 (qǐfēi) — to take off.
    Travel & Transport
  9. 不光 (bùguāng) (adv./conj.)
    我们不光要听老师讲，还要自己多练习。 (Wǒmen bùguāng yào tīng lǎoshī jiǎng, hái yào zìjǐ duō liànxí.)
    not only

    We need not only to listen to the teacher but also to practise a lot on our own.

    Note: Means the same as 不但 and 不仅; the next clause usually has 还, 也 or 而且.
    Prepositions & Conjunctions
  10. 打招呼 (dǎ zhāohu) (v.)
    我在路上看见王老师，就跟她打了个招呼。 (Wǒ zài lùshang kànjiàn Wáng lǎoshī, jiù gēn tā dǎle ge zhāohu.)
    to greet; to say hello (to someone); to let someone know (in advance)

    I saw Teacher Wang in the street and said hello to her.

    Watch out: The person goes before it with 跟, 和 or 向: 跟她打招呼.
    Expressions

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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-4 words of the syllabus that the folder's earlier parts do not card, in frequency order (frequency ranks from drkameleon/complete-hsk-vocabulary); levels checked against two transcriptions of the syllabus word list (harukicoder/hsk30, drkameleon/complete-hsk-vocabulary). All example sentences are original.

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