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 2026-09-22

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	72.3%	23,643	1,647	91
2	Matthew	68.1%	27,983	2,475	108
3	2 John	67.9%	393	138	2
4	Mark	67.8%	17,497	1,933	67
5	1 John	67.8%	3,218	395	12
6	Luke	67.7%	30,495	2,749	117
7	Revelation	65.1%	13,487	1,555	52
8	James	64.9%	3,072	707	12
9	2 Corinthians	64.3%	8,057	1,165	31
10	2 Thessalonians	63.8%	1,415	360	5
11	Genesis	63.7%	44,626	2,781	172
12	Song of Solomon	63.7%	3,426	741	13
13	3 John	63.7%	419	160	2
14	Acts	63.2%	28,933	2,628	111
15	1 Corinthians	62.9%	12,262	1,453	47
16	1 Thessalonians	61.9%	2,623	534	10
17	Philemon	61.8%	601	210	2
18	Galatians	61.7%	4,182	757	16
19	Ruth	61.7%	2,956	554	11
20	Exodus	61.5%	35,177	2,395	135
21	Jonah	61.5%	1,450	393	6
22	Psalms	61.4%	53,904	3,490	207
23	Deuteronomy	61.2%	31,448	2,385	121
24	Ecclesiastes	61.2%	6,156	1,137	24
25	Colossians	61.2%	2,835	628	11
26	Philippians	61.1%	2,970	642	11
27	Hebrews	60.5%	8,926	1,440	34
28	Ezekiel	60.3%	42,983	2,874	165
29	Job	59.7%	20,857	2,722	80
30	Ephesians	59.5%	3,938	800	15
31	Judges	59.2%	21,662	1,911	83
32	Romans	59.1%	12,252	1,504	47
33	Lamentations	59%	4,081	903	16
34	Leviticus	58.9%	25,598	1,626	98
35	2 Timothy	58.8%	2,280	615	9
36	Jude	58.6%	897	317	3
37	2 Peter	58.5%	2,070	572	8
38	Jeremiah	58.3%	50,586	3,139	195
39	Zechariah	58.1%	7,158	1,162	28
40	Numbers	57.9%	36,709	2,169	141
41	Joshua	57.7%	22,629	1,583	87
42	1 Samuel	57.7%	28,433	2,215	109
43	Malachi	57.6%	2,310	499	9
44	1 Kings	57.1%	26,860	2,182	103
45	Isaiah	56.9%	43,651	3,754	168
46	Daniel	56.8%	12,539	1,629	48
47	Haggai	56.8%	1,285	312	5
48	1 Timothy	56.7%	3,075	761	12
49	2 Samuel	56.2%	23,411	2,157	90
50	Titus	56.1%	1,299	423	5
51	1 Peter	56%	3,315	757	13
52	Joel	55.5%	2,259	588	9
53	2 Kings	55.3%	26,180	2,095	101
54	Micah	54.9%	3,712	890	14
55	Esther	54.8%	5,858	907	23
56	Amos	54.5%	4,809	982	18
57	Habakkuk	54.5%	1,657	562	6
58	Nehemiah	54.4%	12,713	1,483	49
59	Hosea	53.7%	6,389	1,167	25
60	Zephaniah	53.7%	1,939	514	7
61	Proverbs	52.5%	16,973	2,335	65
62	2 Chronicles	51.7%	29,469	2,371	113
63	Obadiah	51.4%	748	241	3
64	Nahum	51.3%	1,486	537	6
65	Ezra	50.8%	8,754	1,144	34
66	1 Chronicles	49.7%	26,171	1,864	101

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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: 2026-09-22, 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).