HSK 3.0 · official syllabus, November 2025

HSK 3.0 is not a relabeling.
55.7% of the entries are new.

I parsed all 11,000 entries of the official syllabus PDF and mapped every one of the 5,000 old HSK words onto it. Every row in the map shows the page it came from, so you can check it yourself.

55.7%6,130 of the 11,000 entries are words the old six-level syllabus never had
1,679old words moved straight to levels 7–9 (1,949 moved up in total)
875words short of the new HSK 4 if you finished the old HSK 4
Free one-pager — 20 rows with page numbers See what changed

What actually changed

ChangeCountWhat it means
New word forms6,130Not in the old six-level list at all
Moved up1,9491,679 of them jumped straight to 7–9
Moved down370Including 饺子 / 包子 / 面包 → level 1
Removed126No longer required
Same character, different reading39E.g. 得 dé vs de — counted separately
Ambiguous, left flagged37Multiple readings with no clear single target

Three that surprised me

WordPinyinOld → NewSyllabus page
小姐xiǎojiěL1 → L5p. 161
饺子 · 包子 · 面包jiǎozi · bāozi · miànbāoL3–4 → L1p. 80–83
黑 · 红hēi · hóngL2 → L5p. 142
What I am not sure about. 37 old words have multiple readings with no single obvious target, so they are flagged as ambiguous rather than assigned. Anchor hit rate — the share of rows whose word actually appears on the page they claim — is 100% across the 11,000 entries.

中文说明

新版 HSK(2025 年 11 月发布、2026 年 7 月实施)我已把官方大纲 PDF 的 11,000 条词全部抽出, 并把旧版六级词表逐条映射上去。结论是:新大纲有 55.7% 的词,旧版根本没有; 1,679 个旧词直接跳到 7–9 级;学完旧 HSK 4 的人,离新 HSK 4 还差 875 个词。 上面那份一页样张里的每一行都标了大纲页码,可以自己翻 PDF 核对。

Method & disclosure

Source: 《HSK 考试大纲》, published November 2025 by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation. Page numbers refer to the physical page of the official PDF (cover = p.1). Old word list: HSK 2.0 official six-level list (2012). Matching is by headword + normalised pinyin, with single-signal fallbacks; fallbacks that hit more than one candidate are flagged, never guessed.

Examples in the paid pack are drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by a human. This page and the free one-pager contain no generated examples — only counts and page numbers, all verifiable against the PDF.