How many characters are in Deuteronomy in Chinese?

31,448 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,441 distinct characters, across 951 verses and 34 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Deuteronomy?

61.2% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 73.7% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 20.5% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Deuteronomy take to read in Chinese?

About 121 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Deuteronomy a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 23 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Deuteronomy in Chinese: 1,441 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Deuteronomy in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Deuteronomy is Moses' farewell address on the plains of Moab, restating the law for a new generation before they enter the land. It closes with his death.

Every figure below is counted from the 和合本 (Chinese Union Version), simplified script text of Deuteronomy 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.

Deuteronomy in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	34
Verses	951
Chinese characters	31,448
Distinct characters	1,441
Word tokens	22,606
Distinct words	2,385
Average verse	33 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	61.2%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	73.7%
Not in HSK 1-9	20.5%
Difficulty rank	23 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	121 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	Old Testament

The words Deuteronomy uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	耶和华	536
2	神	385
3	要	318
4	地	220
5	人	196
6	必	187
7	不可	169
8	说	145
9	使	122
10	一切	89
11	吩咐	88
12	有	85
13	行	82
14	若	78
15	城	78
16	去	74
17	吃	74
18	亚	70
19	得	70
20	今日	69

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

Words that occur in Deuteronomy and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
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7 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Deuteronomy

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Deuteronomy 29	67.2%	28	974
Deuteronomy 12	65.7%	32	1,195
Deuteronomy 1	65.4%	46	1,546
Deuteronomy 9	65.1%	29	1,124
Deuteronomy 21	65.1%	23	773
Deuteronomy 5	64.6%	33	989
Deuteronomy 8	64%	20	618
Deuteronomy 18	63.6%	22	694

Read it

Deuteronomy 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 Deuteronomy in Chinese?: 31,448 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,441 distinct characters, across 951 verses and 34 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Deuteronomy?: 61.2% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 73.7% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 20.5% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Deuteronomy take to read in Chinese?: About 121 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Deuteronomy a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 23 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.

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