The hard characters of Hosea
Hosea uses 24 rare characters (outside the 3,500 common ones) and 173 that are common but beyond HSK 6, listed in the order the book first uses them, with their reading and first verse — a list to go through before reading the book aloud.
Rare: outside the 3,500 level-1 characters of the 通用规范汉字表 (2013), China’s official list of common characters. For learners: common by that list, but in no HSK 3.0 word of levels 1–6. This page prints cleanly.
| Char. | Pinyin | In this book | First in | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 耶 | yē | 63 | 1:1 | 耶和华 yē hé huá; 耶稣 yē sū |
| 篾 | miè | 3 | 1:3 | 甲篾 jiǎ miè; 亚拉篾 yà lā miè |
| 朔 | shuò | 2 | 2:11 | 月朔 yuè shuò; 朔巴 shuò bā |
| 珥 | ěr | 2 | 3:2 | 押尼珥 yā ní ěr; 西珥 xī ěr |
| 娼 | chāng | 1 | 4:14 | 娼妓 chāng jì |
| 戮 | lù | 4 | 5:2 | 杀戮 shā lù |
| 燔 | fán | 1 | 6:6 | |
| 掳 | lǔ | 2 | 6:11 | 掳掠 lǔ lüè |
| 抟 | tuán | 1 | 7:4 | |
| 亵 | xiè | 1 | 7:5 | 亵渎 xiè dú; 亵慢 xiè màn |
| 犊 | dú | 12 | 8:5 | 牛犊 niú dú |
| 殓 | liàn | 1 | 9:6 | |
| 骸 | hái | 1 | 9:6 | 骸骨 hái gǔ; 尸骸 shī hái |
| 蒺 | jí | 2 | 9:6 | 蒺藜 jí li |
| 藜 | li | 2 | 9:6 | 蒺藜 jí li |
| 毗 | pí | 1 | 9:10 | 毗珥 pí ěr; 毗大雅 pí dà yǎ |
| 邱 | qiū | 1 | 10:8 | |
| 踹 | chuài | 1 | 10:11 | |
| 轭 | è | 1 | 10:11 | |
| 幔 | màn | 1 | 10:14 | 幔子 màn zi; 幔利 màn lì |
| 闩 | shuān | 1 | 11:6 | 门闩 mén shuān |
| 谕 | yù | 2 | 12:4 | 晓谕 xiǎo yù; 谕旨 yù zhǐ |
| 秕 | bǐ | 1 | 13:3 | 糠秕 kāng bǐ |
| 崽 | zǎi | 1 | 13:8 | 崽子 zǎi zi |
Hard for learners (common, but beyond HSK 6)（173）
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