How many characters are in Habakkuk in Chinese?

1,657 Chinese characters in total, written with 572 distinct characters, across 56 verses and 3 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Habakkuk?

54.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 66.6% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 24.9% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Habakkuk take to read in Chinese?

About 6 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Habakkuk a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 57 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Habakkuk in Chinese: 572 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Habakkuk in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Habakkuk is a dialogue in which the prophet questions why injustice goes unanswered, closing with a psalm of trust.

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

Habakkuk in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	3
Verses	56
Chinese characters	1,657
Distinct characters	572
Word tokens	1,171
Distinct words	562
Average verse	30 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	54.5%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	66.6%
Not in HSK 1-9	24.9%
Difficulty rank	57 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	6 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	Old Testament

The words Habakkuk uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	人	17
2	耶和华	15
3	要	12
4	有	10
5	因	9
6	说	7
7	使	7
8	如	7
9	强暴	6
10	看	6
11	必	6
12	民	6
13	为何	5
14	行	5
15	用	5
16	祸	5
17	列国	4
18	迦	4
19	勒	4
20	底	4

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

Words that occur in Habakkuk and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
汹涌

1 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Habakkuk

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Habakkuk 2	56%	20	628
Habakkuk 1	56%	17	477
Habakkuk 3	51.5%	19	552

Read it

Habakkuk 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 Habakkuk in Chinese?: 1,657 Chinese characters in total, written with 572 distinct characters, across 56 verses and 3 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Habakkuk?: 54.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 66.6% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 24.9% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Habakkuk take to read in Chinese?: About 6 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Habakkuk a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 57 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).