By Oliver Taylor
Registration for this year’s Confucius Institute HSK testing has opened at De Montfort University (DMU).
The HSK abbreviation originates from the pronunciation of the test’s Chinese name. It is called 汉语水平考试 in Chinese, pronounced Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì.

The testing will take place on Saturday, March 21, and the registration deadline is at 4pm on Sunday, February 22.
The HSK test, administered by the Ministry of Education in China, is an internationally recognised Chinese proficiency test. The test ranges across six levels.
The Confucius Institute on DMU’s campus is located in Room 1.15 in the Vijay Patel building. It can be contacted at ci@dmu.ac.uk.