How many characters are in 2 Chronicles in Chinese?

29,469 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,379 distinct characters, across 821 verses and 36 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read 2 Chronicles?

51.7% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 65.3% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 28.8% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does 2 Chronicles take to read in Chinese?

About 113 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is 2 Chronicles a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 62 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

2 Chronicles in Chinese: 1,379 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in 2 Chronicles in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

2 Chronicles covers Solomon through the exile, retelling the kings of Judah with particular attention to the temple and religious reform.

Every figure below is counted from the 和合本 (Chinese Union Version), simplified script text of 2 Chronicles on this site: characters from the simplified text, words from its segmentation, HSK levels from the word lists. The difficulty rank compares this book with the other 65 by the share of word tokens at HSK 1-3.

2 Chronicles in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	36
Verses	821
Chinese characters	29,469
Distinct characters	1,379
Word tokens	20,837
Distinct words	2,371
Average verse	36 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	51.7%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	65.3%
Not in HSK 1-9	28.8%
Difficulty rank	62 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	113 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	Old Testament

The words 2 Chronicles uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	耶和华	397
2	王	330
3	人	245
4	说	185
5	神	184
6	犹大	170
7	殿	144
8	以色列	138
9	利	136
10	雅	131
11	耶路撒冷	127
12	亚	112
13	儿子	101
14	来	94
15	耶	91
16	所罗门	88
17	作	87
18	使	85
19	去	84
20	祭司	83

Function words excluded. Each word has its own page with pinyin, stroke order and the verses it appears in.

Words that occur in 2 Chronicles and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
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10 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of 2 Chronicles

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
2 Chronicles 4	64.7%	22	502
2 Chronicles 18	61.2%	34	1,212
2 Chronicles 10	58.9%	19	705
2 Chronicles 6	58.2%	42	1,457
2 Chronicles 9	56.1%	31	1,037
2 Chronicles 2	55.7%	18	720
2 Chronicles 27	55.7%	9	262
2 Chronicles 1	55.6%	17	592

Read it

2 Chronicles in the parallel reader — Chinese, pinyin and your own language side by side. Or take its vocabulary deck first, ordered by how often each word occurs in this book.

Questions

How many characters are in 2 Chronicles in Chinese?: 29,469 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,379 distinct characters, across 821 verses and 36 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read 2 Chronicles?: 51.7% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 65.3% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 28.8% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does 2 Chronicles take to read in Chinese?: About 113 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is 2 Chronicles a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 62 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Related reference pages

Take it further

97 ready-made vocabulary decks — by HSK level, by book or by topic, exportable to Anki, Pleco or Quizlet.
Printable 田字格 worksheets — passages with pinyin, meanings and tracing rows.
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).