How many characters are in Leviticus in Chinese?

25,598 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,094 distinct characters, across 858 verses and 27 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Leviticus?

58.9% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 70.7% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.5% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Leviticus take to read in Chinese?

About 98 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Leviticus a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 34 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Leviticus in Chinese: 1,094 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Leviticus in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Leviticus collects the laws of sacrifice, purity and holiness given to the priests of Israel. It is largely legal material rather than narrative, and it defines how the community was to worship.

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

Leviticus in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	27
Verses	858
Chinese characters	25,598
Distinct characters	1,094
Word tokens	18,811
Distinct words	1,626
Average verse	30 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	58.9%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	70.7%
Not in HSK 1-9	21.5%
Difficulty rank	34 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	98 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	Old Testament

The words Leviticus uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	要	507
2	耶和华	313
3	祭	254
4	不可	202
5	洁净	182
6	祭司	171
7	若	153
8	人	144
9	献	139
10	圣	126
11	给	122
12	必	109
13	就要	106
14	一	106
15	赎罪	98
16	地	96
17	油	95
18	坛	91
19	用	88
20	或是	88

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

Words that occur in Leviticus and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
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29 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Leviticus

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Leviticus 25	65.2%	55	1,608
Leviticus 26	63.2%	46	1,490
Leviticus 8	62.5%	36	1,066
Leviticus 13	61.5%	59	1,918
Leviticus 12	61.5%	8	266
Leviticus 10	61.4%	20	771
Leviticus 3	60.8%	16	507
Leviticus 15	60.6%	33	868

Read it

Leviticus 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 Leviticus in Chinese?: 25,598 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,094 distinct characters, across 858 verses and 27 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Leviticus?: 58.9% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 70.7% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.5% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Leviticus take to read in Chinese?: About 98 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Leviticus a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 34 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).