HSK 5 story
六点半的粥
liù diǎn bàn de zhōu
Porridge at Six-Thirty
Every evening an old woman in Hangzhou orders one bowl of plain porridge she hardly eats, and the delivery rider slowly works out what she is really paying for.
- Chapters
- 5
- Characters
- 3,012
- Reading time
- 35 min
- Words in level
- 99.3%
- HSK 5 words used
- 91
- Glossed extras
- 3
Measured by script against the HSK 3.0 syllabus, names excluded.
Words to know before you start
The HSK 5 words this story uses most. Look at them once — the story will bring them back.
单
dān
bill; list; form
平台
píngtái
platform; terrace; flat-roofed building
系统
xìtǒng
system
白
bái
white; in vain; free of charge
傍晚
bàngwǎn
in the evening; when night falls; towards evening
堵
dǔ
to block up (a road, pipe etc); to stop up (a hole); wall (literary)
派
pài
to send (a person or resource); to dispatch; to allocate (a resource or task)
屏幕
píngmù
screen (TV, computer or movie)
同一
tóngyī
identical; the same
物业
wùyè
property; real estate; abbr. for 物业管理, property management
Chapters
People and places
- 陈亮Chén Liàng — Chen Liang, a food-delivery rider from Anhui
- 陈Chén — Chen, a surname
- 沈Shěn — Shen, a surname
- 老周Lǎo Zhōu — Old Zhou, the leader of Chen Liang's delivery team
- 杭州Hángzhōu — Hangzhou, a city in eastern China
- 安徽Ānhuī — Anhui, a province west of Hangzhou
- 深圳Shēnzhèn — Shenzhen, a city in southern China
Names are underlined in the text, so you can tell them from words.