Chinese language level definition

Chinese-Zone Level	Speaking	Listening	Writing	Reading
Survival Elementary level	You can ask for / provide information to meet daily requirements, everyday goods and services. Mastered over 350 spoken words	You can understand and obtain information about simple predictable daily activities	You can produce simple written information - short informal notes and memos - and depend on the help of others for more demanding tasks, such as writing letters or diaries by Pinyin	You can obtain information about predictable daily activities and Chinese culture
Level 1 Basic User	You can handle varied daily activities, sufficient for practical needs. Mastered over 600 spoken words	You can understand and obtain specific details from varied everyday sources	You can produce simple written information to deal with routine and daily activities. Mastered over 150 characters focus on daily use.	You can obtain specific details from simple everyday written sources
Level 2 Upper-Basic User	You can respond and seek opinions on everyday matters. Mastered over 1,000 spoken words at least which is enough for you to communicate in daily life.	You can obtain specific details from varied everyday sources about general non-routine and daily activities.	You can construct everyday texts using set phrases and structures, and produce notes and short messages to fulfil everyday requirements. Another 150 more characters have to be mastered.	You can obtain information about non-routine and daily activities from familiar written sources.
Level 3 Basic -Intermediate User	You can deal with key work tasks, giving and seeking instructions to achieve such tasks which need to be mastered over 1200 spoken words.	You can obtain information about key work tasks and obtain information, ideas and opinions from a variety of sources.	You can produce written materials to deal with a variety of work tasks. Master over 500 characters and more than 200 sentence patterns, over 3000 commonly used sentences.	You can obtain information about complex work tasks
Level 4 Intermediate User	You can contribute to routine business discussions, exchange opinions on a variety of matters and deliver prepared presentations. More words need to be handled.	You can obtain specific details from a variety of sources	You can produce written texts to fulfil routine work requirements	You should be able to read simple Chinese newspapers and magazines.
Level 5 Upper -Intermediate user	You can deal with complex work tasks, contribute to business discussions and give and seek complex information to achieve work tasks. Gain knowledge on advanced grammar and vocabulary.	You can obtain information, ideas and opinions from complex sources.	You can produce written materials to deal with complex tasks and produce technical texts.	You can obtain information from complex tasks.
Level 6 Basic Advanced user	You are proficient in Mandarin and could communicate in business topics. Consolidate your vocabulary to almost total 2500-300 words.	You can obtain highly specialised information from complex sources	You can exchange complex correspondence, convey information and handle ideas in written form.	You can extract information from a number of sources.
Level 7 Good user	You can deal with highly specialised tasks, giving and seeking information to achieve such task	You can obtain highly specialised information from complex sources.	You can produce written materials to deal with highly specialised tasks and exchange highly specialised information	You can obtain highly specialized information by reading
Level 8 Very good user	You can contribute to complex business discussions and present and debate arguments on complex matters.	You can obtain information, ideas and opinions from highly specialised sources	You can present and debate arguments on complex matters in written form, and produce texts intended for public consumption.	You can obtain information, ideas and opinions from highly specialised texts, and extract information from diverse sources.