Publisher's Synopsis
In May 2020, Chinese Testing International, the organization that administers the HSK, announced that the current HSK test and the Chinese Proficiency Standards on which it is based are both going to be reformed. The new HSK will consist of three broad stages: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Each of these stages will then be divided into three levels, for a total of nine levels. Each level will have a set number of 300 new characters in each level, and a varying number of 500 to 1140 new words in each level based on all possible combinations of these characters. The word lists have been revised to exclude some outdated words (e.g. "fax").
There are 500 words in 2021 new HSK level 1, 772 words in level 2, 973 words in level 3, 1000 words in 2021 new HSK level 4, 1071 words in level 5, 1140 words in level 6, 5636 words in level 7-9.
