How many characters are in Ephesians in Chinese?

3,938 Chinese characters in total, written with 645 distinct characters, across 154 verses and 6 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Ephesians?

59.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 72.1% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.2% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Ephesians take to read in Chinese?

About 15 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Ephesians a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 30 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Ephesians in Chinese: 645 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Ephesians in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Ephesians sets out a broad vision of unity in Christ, then turns to practical instruction for households and community life.

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

Ephesians in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	6
Verses	154
Chinese characters	3,938
Distinct characters	645
Word tokens	2,689
Distinct words	800
Average verse	26 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	59.5%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	72.1%
Not in HSK 1-9	21.2%
Difficulty rank	30 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	15 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	New Testament

The words Ephesians uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	神	40
2	基督	40
3	人	35
4	要	31
5	主	24
6	叫	20
7	有	19
8	使	19
9	爱	16
10	作	15
11	就是	14
12	照	14
13	不要	14
14	耶稣	13
15	一切	13
16	当	13
17	教会	12
18	给	11
19	因	11
20	得	11

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

Words that occur in Ephesians and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
冤仇全副

2 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Ephesians

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Ephesians 1	63.2%	23	668
Ephesians 3	60.9%	21	537
Ephesians 5	59.5%	33	727
Ephesians 2	59.5%	22	634
Ephesians 6	58.2%	23	632
Ephesians 4	56%	32	740

Read it

Ephesians 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 Ephesians in Chinese?: 3,938 Chinese characters in total, written with 645 distinct characters, across 154 verses and 6 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Ephesians?: 59.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 72.1% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.2% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Ephesians take to read in Chinese?: About 15 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Ephesians a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 30 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).