# 1 John in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> 1 John uses 330 distinct Chinese characters and 395 distinct words across 3,218 characters and 105 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 67.8% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 5th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 5 |
| Verses | 105 |
| Chinese characters | 3,218 |
| Distinct characters | 330 |
| Word tokens | 2,285 |
| Distinct words | 395 |
| Average verse | 31 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 67.8% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 82.6% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 11.7% |
| Difficulty rank | 5 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 12 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 神 | 81 |
| 2 | 爱 | 36 |
| 3 | 里面 | 28 |
| 4 | 若 | 23 |
| 5 | 凡 | 22 |
| 6 | 就是 | 21 |
| 7 | 知道 | 21 |
| 8 | 住 | 20 |
| 9 | 弟兄 | 18 |
| 10 | 罪 | 17 |
| 11 | 儿子 | 16 |
| 12 | 主 | 16 |
| 13 | 人 | 16 |
| 14 | 给 | 14 |
| 15 | 有 | 13 |
| 16 | 认识 | 12 |
| 17 | 心 | 12 |
| 18 | 父 | 11 |
| 19 | 哪 | 11 |
| 20 | 要 | 11 |
| 21 | 来 | 11 |
| 22 | 属 | 11 |
| 23 | 生 | 11 |
| 24 | 见证 | 10 |
| 25 | 说 | 10 |
| 26 | 犯罪 | 10 |
| 27 | 命令 | 10 |
| 28 | 世界 | 10 |
| 29 | 听见 | 9 |
| 30 | 看见 | 9 |
| 31 | 作 | 9 |
| 32 | 心里 | 9 |
| 33 | 小子 | 9 |
| 34 | 们 | 9 |
| 35 | 从此 | 9 |
| 36 | 灵 | 9 |
| 37 | 起初 | 8 |
| 38 | 道 | 8 |
| 39 | 认 | 8 |
| 40 | 并且 | 8 |
| 41 | 因 | 8 |
| 42 | 信 | 8 |
| 43 | 已经 | 7 |
| 44 | 黑暗 | 7 |
| 45 | 行 | 7 |
| 46 | 真理 | 7 |
| 47 | 一切 | 7 |
| 48 | 遵守 | 7 |
| 49 | 写信 | 7 |
| 50 | 存在 | 7 |

## Words found in 1 John and nowhere else

父老 恩膏

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 John 2 | 70.2% | 29 | 986 |
| 1 John 4 | 69.1% | 21 | 642 |
| 1 John 5 | 68% | 21 | 576 |
| 1 John 3 | 65.4% | 24 | 709 |
| 1 John 1 | 62.4% | 10 | 305 |

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## Method

- Text: 和合本 (Chinese Union Version), simplified script — public domain
- Words: forward maximum matching against CC-CEDICT (this site's own segmentation)
- 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)
- Computed: 2026-09-22

These are reproducible counts over a public-domain text, not a peer-reviewed study. Difficulty ranks are one stated formula, not a validated readability score.


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- Bible text: public domain — 和合本 · World English Bible · Louis Segond 1910.
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