# Why are some words blocked?

**URL:** <https://community.hanzihero.com/t/why-are-some-words-blocked/2104>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 6, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/why-are-some-words-blocked/2104 "2024-06-06T18:37:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevin](https://community-cdn.hanzihero.com/user_avatar/community.hanzihero.com/kevin/32/68_2.png) [@kevin](https://community.hanzihero.com/u/kevin)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2024, 8:17am UTC](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/why-are-some-words-blocked/2104/3 "2024-06-07T08:17:21Z")

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Most of those words are also [recently added some days ago](https://community.hanzihero.com/t/tuesday-june-05-2024-simplified-curriculum-update/) which may be why they haven’t shown up quite yet. As Phil mentioned, the word selection algorithm will try to focus on “broad character coverage” (i.e., getting an even character-distribution in the words selected), which is why this may not have shown in your queue quite yet.

As we start adding more and more lower-level HSK words, we are also looking into potentially adding an option for users to change the word-selection algorithm to prioritize words based more on HSK level than “character coverage”.

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