How many characters are in Hebrews in Chinese?

8,926 Chinese characters in total, written with 976 distinct characters, across 303 verses and 13 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Hebrews?

60.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 73.1% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 19.5% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Hebrews take to read in Chinese?

About 34 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Hebrews a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 27 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Hebrews in Chinese: 976 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Hebrews in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Hebrews argues at length that Christ surpasses the priesthood and sacrifices of the old covenant, and closes with a roll call of faith.

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

Hebrews in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	13
Verses	303
Chinese characters	8,926
Distinct characters	976
Word tokens	6,278
Distinct words	1,440
Average verse	29 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	60.5%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	73.1%
Not in HSK 1-9	19.5%
Difficulty rank	27 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	34 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	New Testament

The words Hebrews uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	神	91
2	人	71
3	要	61
4	说	54
5	有	48
6	因	37
7	信	30
8	更	24
9	作	22
10	就是	22
11	若	22
12	一	21
13	事	21
14	血	21
15	大祭司	21
16	主	20
17	叫	20
18	祭司	20
19	死	20
20	来	19

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

Words that occur in Hebrews and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
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3 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Hebrews

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Hebrews 8	65.3%	13	449
Hebrews 3	64.2%	19	482
Hebrews 13	63.3%	25	744
Hebrews 4	62.6%	16	535
Hebrews 10	62.2%	39	991
Hebrews 1	61.7%	14	396
Hebrews 2	61.4%	18	542
Hebrews 11	60.2%	40	1,222

Read it

Hebrews 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 Hebrews in Chinese?: 8,926 Chinese characters in total, written with 976 distinct characters, across 303 verses and 13 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Hebrews?: 60.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 73.1% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 19.5% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Hebrews take to read in Chinese?: About 34 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Hebrews a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 27 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).