Every Bible Book in Chinese, by the Numbers

Name: Vocabulary profile of every book of the Chinese Bible
Creator: Chinese Bible
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Answering: “bible books by vocabulary in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-26

Each book has a profile page with its own frequency list, the words that occur in it and nowhere else, and its easiest chapters. The table is ordered easiest first, by the share of word tokens at HSK 1-3 with distinct characters per 1,000 characters as the tie-break.

All 66 books, easiest first

Rank	Book	HSK 1-3	Characters	Distinct words	Minutes
1	John	72.7%	23,643	1,626	91
2	Matthew	68.6%	27,983	2,461	108
3	Mark	68.4%	17,497	1,917	67
4	Luke	68.2%	30,495	2,731	117
5	2 John	68%	393	137	2
6	1 John	67.9%	3,218	394	12
7	Revelation	65.7%	13,487	1,545	52
8	James	65.3%	3,072	705	12
9	Genesis	65.1%	44,626	2,848	172
10	2 Corinthians	64.4%	8,057	1,155	31
11	Song of Solomon	64.1%	3,426	735	13
12	2 Thessalonians	64%	1,415	358	5
13	Acts	63.9%	28,933	2,643	111
14	3 John	63.9%	419	157	2
15	Ruth	63.2%	2,956	546	11
16	1 Corinthians	63%	12,262	1,436	47
17	Philemon	62.2%	601	204	2
18	Exodus	61.9%	35,177	2,394	135
19	Deuteronomy	61.9%	31,448	2,393	121
20	1 Thessalonians	61.9%	2,623	534	10
21	Psalms	61.8%	53,904	3,469	207
22	Galatians	61.8%	4,182	746	16
23	Jonah	61.6%	1,450	393	6
24	Ecclesiastes	61.5%	6,156	1,130	24
25	Colossians	61.4%	2,835	619	11
26	Philippians	61.3%	2,970	637	11
27	Hebrews	61%	8,926	1,434	34
28	Ezekiel	60.8%	42,983	2,877	165
29	Judges	60.6%	21,662	1,936	83
30	Job	60%	20,857	2,717	80
31	Romans	59.5%	12,252	1,494	47
32	Ephesians	59.5%	3,938	795	15
33	Jeremiah	59.2%	50,586	3,177	195
34	Leviticus	59.2%	25,598	1,612	98
35	Lamentations	59.2%	4,081	898	16
36	1 Samuel	59.1%	28,433	2,239	109
37	Joshua	59%	22,629	1,678	87
38	Numbers	58.9%	36,709	2,220	141
39	Jude	58.9%	897	313	3
40	2 Timothy	58.7%	2,280	616	9
41	Zechariah	58.6%	7,158	1,156	28
42	2 Peter	58.5%	2,070	571	8
43	1 Kings	58.2%	26,860	2,208	103
44	Malachi	58.1%	2,310	496	9
45	Daniel	57.6%	12,539	1,620	48
46	Isaiah	57.5%	43,651	3,788	168
47	2 Samuel	57.5%	23,411	2,202	90
48	1 Timothy	56.9%	3,075	757	12
49	2 Kings	56.8%	26,180	2,114	101
50	Haggai	56.8%	1,285	308	5
51	Nehemiah	56.4%	12,713	1,571	49
52	Titus	56.3%	1,299	420	5
53	Esther	56%	5,858	906	23
54	1 Peter	56%	3,315	749	13
55	Amos	55.9%	4,809	973	18
56	Micah	55.9%	3,712	882	14
57	Joel	55.7%	2,259	584	9
58	Habakkuk	54.7%	1,657	561	6
59	Zephaniah	54.5%	1,939	510	7
60	Hosea	54.4%	6,389	1,160	25
61	Obadiah	54.1%	748	232	3
62	2 Chronicles	53%	29,469	2,420	113
63	Ezra	53%	8,754	1,196	34
64	Proverbs	52.9%	16,973	2,320	65
65	1 Chronicles	51.8%	26,171	2,140	101
66	Nahum	51.2%	1,486	532	6

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97 ready-made vocabulary decks — by HSK level, by book or by topic, exportable to Anki, Pleco or Quizlet.
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The parallel reader — Chinese, pinyin and your own language side by side, every word tappable.
The dataset behind these numbers — plain JSON, free to reuse with attribution.

How these numbers were produced

Text: 和合本 (Chinese Union Version), simplified script — public domain — 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,021 verses.
Words: forward maximum matching against CC-CEDICT (this site's own segmentation). A different segmenter gives slightly different word counts; character counts are unaffected.
HSK levels: HSK 3.0 levels from the complete-hsk-vocabulary list; band 7 covers HSK 7-9.
Reading times: 260 characters a minute — an assumption about a fluent adult reader, not a measurement.
Computed: 2026-09-26, from the text on this site.

These are counts anyone can reproduce from the published dataset. They are not a peer-reviewed linguistic study, and the difficulty rankings are one stated formula rather than a validated readability score.

Definitions: CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). If you share this file onward, keep this notice and share alike. Character data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License / LGPL).