How many characters are in Jeremiah in Chinese?

50,586 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,678 distinct characters, across 1,361 verses and 52 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Jeremiah?

58.3% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 70.9% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 23.2% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Jeremiah take to read in Chinese?

About 195 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Jeremiah a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 38 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Jeremiah in Chinese: 1,678 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Jeremiah in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Jeremiah preaches in Jerusalem's final decades before the Babylonian conquest, mixing oracles of judgement with a strikingly personal record of the prophet's own anguish.

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

Jeremiah in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	52
Verses	1,361
Chinese characters	50,586
Distinct characters	1,678
Word tokens	35,552
Distinct words	3,139
Average verse	37 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	58.3%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	70.9%
Not in HSK 1-9	23.2%
Difficulty rank	38 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	195 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	Old Testament

The words Jeremiah uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	说	759
2	耶和华	737
3	必	481
4	要	385
5	人	365
6	使	269
7	王	233
8	地	229
9	犹大	197
10	巴比伦	184
11	有	165
12	的话	163
13	去	161
14	如此	161
15	因	160
16	神	157
17	耶利米	137
18	一切	136
19	来	130
20	儿子	124

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

Words that occur in Jeremiah and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
从宽禀坐大松古道枷含忍大锤极好年满可惊骇探问契画押缄火盆密林庙宇天后到此为止跑来跑去深密轻轻

25 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Jeremiah

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Jeremiah 18	64.5%	23	803
Jeremiah 1	63.3%	19	615
Jeremiah 3	63.1%	25	984
Jeremiah 12	63%	17	654
Jeremiah 42	62.8%	22	896
Jeremiah 16	62.8%	21	812
Jeremiah 22	62.5%	30	1,049
Jeremiah 5	62.5%	31	1,070

Read it

Jeremiah 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 Jeremiah in Chinese?: 50,586 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,678 distinct characters, across 1,361 verses and 52 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Jeremiah?: 58.3% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 70.9% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 23.2% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Jeremiah take to read in Chinese?: About 195 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Jeremiah a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 38 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).