Category:Mandarin by difficulty level

Beginning, Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Chinese categories are based on the 甲乙丙丁 categories as set forth in the Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì (Chinese Proficiency Test). Materials produced by the HSK committee are believed to be in the public domain under Article 5 of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China.

Wiktionary	HSK committee	level number	total words	total characters
Beginning Mandarin	甲	1	1033	800
Elementary Mandarin	乙	2	2019	803
Intermediate Mandarin	丙	3	2205	591
Advanced Mandarin	丁	4	3583	671

Source : http://www.unige.ch/lettres/meslo/chinois/general/HSK.html The total number of words on the HSK committee list is 8840. If a word falls outside that list, it will not be classified as beginning, elementary, intermediate or advanced.

See: Appendix:HSK list of Mandarin words for the complete list sorted according to Pinyin order.

Subcategories

This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.

C

• [+] cmn:Advanced Mandarin‎ (2 c, 1576 e)
• [+] cmn:Beginning Mandarin‎ (2 c, 425 e)
• [+] cmn:Elementary Mandarin‎ (2 c, 687 e)
• [+] cmn:Intermediate Mandarin‎ (2 c, 590 e)