How many characters are in Ezekiel in Chinese?

42,983 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,594 distinct characters, across 1,270 verses and 48 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Ezekiel?

60.3% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 72.8% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Ezekiel take to read in Chinese?

About 165 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Ezekiel a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 28 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Ezekiel in Chinese: 1,594 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Ezekiel in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Ezekiel writes from exile in Babylon in vivid symbolic visions — the chariot, the valley of dry bones, and a restored temple.

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

Ezekiel in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	48
Verses	1,270
Chinese characters	42,983
Distinct characters	1,594
Word tokens	31,433
Distinct words	2,874
Average verse	34 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	60.3%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	72.8%
Not in HSK 1-9	21%
Difficulty rank	28 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	165 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	Old Testament

The words Ezekiel uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	说	492
2	必	483
3	耶和华	438
4	要	393
5	人	334
6	使	262
7	地	234
8	有	233
9	主	223
10	一	189
11	以色列	180
12	肘	148
13	如此	142
14	行	129
15	因	115
16	一切	106
17	圣	99
18	用	98
19	人子	93
20	就是	92

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

Words that occur in Ezekiel and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
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37 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Ezekiel

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Ezekiel 2	76.2%	10	325
Ezekiel 8	69.1%	18	662
Ezekiel 12	66.9%	28	944
Ezekiel 37	66.4%	28	1,051
Ezekiel 3	66.3%	27	919
Ezekiel 1	65.1%	28	831
Ezekiel 20	64.8%	49	1,907
Ezekiel 16	64.6%	62	2,076

Read it

Ezekiel 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 Ezekiel in Chinese?: 42,983 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,594 distinct characters, across 1,270 verses and 48 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Ezekiel?: 60.3% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 72.8% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Ezekiel take to read in Chinese?: About 165 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Ezekiel a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 28 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).