How many characters are in Exodus in Chinese?

35,177 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,415 distinct characters, across 1,212 verses and 40 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Exodus?

61.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 71.6% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 22.8% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Exodus take to read in Chinese?

About 135 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Exodus a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 20 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Exodus in Chinese: 1,415 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Exodus in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Exodus tells how Israel left slavery in Egypt under Moses, received the Ten Commandments at Sinai, and built the tabernacle. It is the founding story of the nation and its covenant.

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

Exodus in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	40
Verses	1,212
Chinese characters	35,177
Distinct characters	1,415
Word tokens	25,560
Distinct words	2,395
Average verse	29 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	61.5%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	71.6%
Not in HSK 1-9	22.8%
Difficulty rank	20 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	135 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	Old Testament

The words Exodus uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	要	526
2	耶和华	412
3	说	316
4	摩西	303
5	做	223
6	人	202
7	用	185
8	埃及	182
9	百姓	150
10	有	139
11	去	136
12	神	136
13	一	132
14	亚伦	122
15	法老	116
16	以色列人	115
17	地	112
18	使	107
19	坛	103
20	不可	100

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

Words that occur in Exodus and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
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35 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Exodus

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Exodus 33	67.9%	23	806
Exodus 2	66.9%	25	740
Exodus 4	66.1%	31	935
Exodus 13	66%	22	736
Exodus 25	65.1%	40	813
Exodus 16	64.8%	36	1,154
Exodus 10	64.8%	29	1,024
Exodus 32	64.5%	35	1,161

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Exodus 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 Exodus in Chinese?: 35,177 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,415 distinct characters, across 1,212 verses and 40 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Exodus?: 61.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 71.6% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 22.8% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Exodus take to read in Chinese?: About 135 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Exodus a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 20 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).