HSK 1 flashcards — 300 words
Twenty cards a round, and your first twenty on each level are free. With a plan the whole level is dealt: words you miss come back in the same round, words you know after a day, three days, a week and three weeks.
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The 20 most common HSK 1 words, as flashcards
Front and back of the twenty words on this level you will meet most often in everyday Chinese, by wordfreq’s frequency count (an outside measure; the syllabus ranks none). The drill deals from all 300 words in random order, so your first round will be a different twenty.
- 的de助of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
- 是shì动to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right
- 在zài动、介、副to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
- 了le助(modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause); (complete…
- 我wǒ代I; me; my
- 和hé介、连(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr.)
- 有yǒu动to have; there is; (bound form) having
- 不bù副no; not so; (bound form) not
- 人rén名person; people
- 你nǐ代you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您)
- 也yě副also; too; as well
- 他tā代(third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
- 这zhè代(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this
- 年nián名、量year
- 对duì形、介、（动、量）right; correct; towards
- 都dōu副all; both; entirely
- 上shàng名、动(bound form) up; upper; above
- 说shuō动to speak; to talk; to say
- 吗ma助(question particle for "yes-no" questions)
- 我们wǒmen代we; us; ourselves
How the HSK 1 deck works
Each card starts with the word in Chinese characters. Think of what it means, then tap the card or press space to turn it over: pinyin, part of speech and meaning, with a speaker button to hear it. Then say how it went, “I knew it” or “Not yet” (keys 2 and 1). The cards go one way only, from the Chinese to the meaning.
Behind the cards is a five-box Leitner schedule. A new card starts in the first box. Each “I knew it” moves it up one box, and each box waits longer before the card comes back. “Not yet” sends it back to the first box, wherever it was.
- Box 1Same round
- Box 21 day
- Box 33 days
- Box 41 week
- Box 53 weeks
A round is up to twenty cards. Cards that are due for review, at most twelve of them, are shuffled in with new words drawn at random from the level’s 300.
Without a paid plan, every level gives you twenty cards free, with no account: one pass through twenty new words. Once twenty cards from a level are in your deck, the drill on that level — new cards, repeats within a round and later reviews — is part of HSKWin Pro. A free account does not raise the limit.
The deck is kept in this browser, one per level. It is never saved to an account, with Pro or without, so it does not follow you to another device, and clearing this site’s data empties it.
Looking a word up is a different job: the full HSK 1 word list prints all 300 words with search, part-of-speech filters and audio, free to read.
Questions about the HSK 1 flashcards
Are the HSK 1 flashcards free?
Twenty cards on every level are free, with no account: one pass through twenty new words. After that, the drill on that level, reviews included, is part of HSKWin Pro, which opens all 300 cards. Signing up for a free account does not raise the limit. The HSK 1 word list stays free to read in full.
The HSK 1 word listWhere is my flashcard progress saved?
In this browser only, separately for each level. It is not stored on an account, with or without Pro, so it does not carry over to another browser or device, and clearing this site’s data empties the deck.
When does a card come back?
It depends on its box. A card you miss goes back to the first box and to the end of the round you are in. A card you know moves up one box and comes back after one day, then three days, a week and three weeks. Each round deals at most twelve due cards and fills the rest with new words; the free round is a single pass through twenty new ones.
Which words are in the HSK 1 deck?
The 300 words the HSK 3.0 exam syllabus adds at HSK 1, with the syllabus’s own pinyin and part of speech and an English meaning from CC-CEDICT.