How many characters are in Revelation in Chinese?

13,487 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,068 distinct characters, across 405 verses and 22 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Revelation?

65.1% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 75% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 19.4% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Revelation take to read in Chinese?

About 52 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Revelation a good book to start with?

Yes — it ranks 7 of 66 books from easiest to hardest by vocabulary, so it is among the gentler starts.

Revelation in Chinese: 1,068 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Revelation in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-22 · plain text · JSON

Revelation closes the Bible with a series of visions given to John on Patmos — letters to seven churches, cycles of judgement, and a final vision of a new heaven and new earth.

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

Revelation in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	22
Verses	405
Chinese characters	13,487
Distinct characters	1,068
Word tokens	9,951
Distinct words	1,555
Average verse	33 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	65.1%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	75%
Not in HSK 1-9	19.4%
Difficulty rank	7 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	52 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	New Testament

The words Revelation uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	有	164
2	说	113
3	神	102
4	要	99
5	人	78
6	一	69
7	位	65
8	天使	64
9	七	62
10	看见	56
11	来	51
12	兽	50
13	众	48
14	叫	40
15	个	40
16	宝座	40
17	就是	38
18	听见	37
19	给	35
20	必	35

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

Words that occur in Revelation and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
昔阿拉戛狄七星利剑龙口死伤大雷熟透雹子遍体巢穴哈利路亚火湖一会删去

17 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Revelation

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Revelation 3	70.5%	22	795
Revelation 7	68.8%	17	542
Revelation 14	68.1%	20	735
Revelation 17	67.1%	18	624
Revelation 10	66.8%	11	352
Revelation 22	66.4%	21	648
Revelation 6	66.3%	17	568
Revelation 4	65.6%	11	389

Read it

Revelation 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 Revelation in Chinese?: 13,487 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,068 distinct characters, across 405 verses and 22 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Revelation?: 65.1% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 75% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 19.4% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Revelation take to read in Chinese?: About 52 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Revelation a good book to start with?: Yes — it ranks 7 of 66 books from easiest to hardest by vocabulary, so it is among the gentler starts.

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).