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HSK Hanzi Levels - gyuujuice - 2010-06-04
大家好。I've been searching for a discription of the hanzi used in the HSK tests.
If I finish RTK 3 and memorise the remaining characters on this website then should I be able to take level 4? That would probably be 3500 characters. How many characters do you need for level 5? All I kind find our descriptions about the vocabulary needed. (What does 1200 words mean? That doesn't seem like a lot.)
http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html
(I don't mind if the hanzi requirement comes from the old test or the new test.)
谢谢！
HSK Hanzi Levels - deathtrap - 2010-06-05
I'd recommend you look through vocabulary lists and focus on words rather than characters because if you don't know the words then no amount of character knowledge will save you from a dismal score
You'll also have the added benefit of testing your character knowledge as well while going through the HSK word lists. For reference, 1033 words & 800 characters were required for the old HSK Basic level, compared to 8840 words & 2865 characters for the old HSK advanced level. Just to give you some perspective.
You can find the HSK vocabulary lists here