HSK 7 Vocabulary Workbook
The 1,900 most frequent words from the HSK 7–9 list, in units ordered by how often the words turn up in real Chinese, each with its own example sentence.
681 pages, US Letter. Printable PDF on Gumroad. No paperback yet.
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HSK 7 (New HSK 3.0): what's on the syllabus, and my books for it
Level 7 in numbers
| Words in the Levels 7–9 list | 5,600 (syllabus nos. 5401–11000) |
|---|---|
| Words in total, all nine levels | 11,000 |
| Characters to recognise | 1,148 new, 3,088 in total |
| Handwriting characters | 500 new, 1,200 in total |
| Stage | Advanced (Levels 7–9), one combined exam |
Levels 7, 8 and 9 work differently from the rest. The syllabus gives them a single list: 5,600 words, 1,148 characters to recognise and 500 to write by hand. There is also only one exam for all three. Your result on it decides whether you're placed at 7, 8 or 9.
That means there is no official "HSK 7 word list". Anyone who makes an HSK 7 book has to decide where to cut. What I did was rank the whole 7–9 list by how often each word turns up in real Chinese text and take the top 1,900 words, and the 167 most common handwriting characters. That gives you the part of the advanced list you'll meet most, which is roughly the first third of it.
The units in these books follow that frequency order, not themes, so you learn the most useful words first. Each of the 1,900 words has its own example sentence with pinyin and English. Both books are printable PDFs for now.
Counts are from the HSK syllabus published by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation in November 2025 (in force from July 2026), which is what HSK 3.0 uses.
My HSK 7 books
HSK 7 Character Writing Workbook
The 167 most common characters from the HSK 7–9 handwriting list, each on its own page with stroke order and 田字格 grids.
209 pages, US Letter. Printable PDF on Gumroad. No paperback yet.
Every book has a free sample above. More free pages, including the HSK 3.0 Starter Pack, are on the free page.
Exam dates
The first HSK 3.0 exam is on Sunday 13 December 2026. Chinese Testing International announced the worldwide launch on 9 September 2026.
- Registration is on chinesetest.cn. It closes at 24:00 Beijing time on 16 November 2026 for paper-based tests and on 3 December 2026 for computer-based tests.
- Test centres have limited places and can stop taking registrations before those dates, so check with yours early.
- For Levels 3 to 6 you register for the matching speaking test at the same time. Levels 7 to 9 are one combined exam.
Sources: chinesetest.cn and the Athens Business Confucius Institute notice. Checked 21 October 2026. Your test centre has the final word on its own dates.