How many characters are in 2 Peter in Chinese?

2,070 Chinese characters in total, written with 515 distinct characters, across 61 verses and 3 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read 2 Peter?

58.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 70.4% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.7% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does 2 Peter take to read in Chinese?

About 8 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is 2 Peter a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 37 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

2 Peter in Chinese: 515 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in 2 Peter in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

2 Peter warns against false teachers and answers those who doubted the promised return.

Every figure below is counted from the 和合本 (Chinese Union Version), simplified script text of 2 Peter 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.

2 Peter in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	3
Verses	61
Chinese characters	2,070
Distinct characters	515
Word tokens	1,408
Distinct words	572
Average verse	34 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	58.5%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	70.4%
Not in HSK 1-9	21.7%
Difficulty rank	37 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	8 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	New Testament

The words 2 Peter uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	人	22
2	主	18
3	要	18
4	有	15
5	事	12
6	神	11
7	耶稣基督	8
8	有了	8
9	就是	8
10	地	7
11	加上	7
12	必	7
13	这些	7
14	因	6
15	弟兄	6
16	心	6
17	给	5
18	救主	5
19	义	5
20	得	5

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

Words that occur in 2 Peter and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
销

1 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of 2 Peter

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
2 Peter 3	61.6%	18	604
2 Peter 1	59.5%	21	699
2 Peter 2	55%	22	767

Read it

2 Peter 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 2 Peter in Chinese?: 2,070 Chinese characters in total, written with 515 distinct characters, across 61 verses and 3 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read 2 Peter?: 58.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 70.4% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.7% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does 2 Peter take to read in Chinese?: About 8 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is 2 Peter a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 37 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).