HSK 3 story
红雨伞
hóng yǔ sǎn
The Red Umbrella
All week a red umbrella by the office door keeps changing hands, and on Friday morning Lin Xiaoyu waits to see who has been leaving it there.
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- Chapters
- 4
- Characters
- 1,335
- Reading time
- 20 min
- Words in level
- 99.4%
- HSK 3 words used
- 70
- Glossed extras
- 2
Measured by script against the HSK 3.0 syllabus, names excluded.
Words to know before you start
The HSK 3 words this story uses most. Look at them once — the story will bring them back.
伞
sǎn
umbrella; parasol
放
fàng
to put; to place; to release
用
yòng
to use; to make use of; to employ
好像
hǎoxiàng
to seem like; as if
还
huán
to pay back; to return
不见
bújiàn
to have disappeared; to be missing; not to see
年轻
niánqīng
young
大熊猫
dàxióngmāo
giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
电梯
diàntī
elevator; escalator
耳机
ěrjī
headphones; earphones; telephone receiver
Chapters
People and places
- 林小雨Lín Xiǎoyǔ — Lin Xiaoyu, a young office worker
- 周文Zhōu Wén — Zhou Wen, the colleague at the next desk
- 王师傅Wáng shīfu — Master Wang, who looks after the building downstairs
- 马丽Mǎ Lì — Ma Li, a colleague from the ninth floor
Names are underlined in the text, so you can tell them from words.