# 1 Kings in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> 1 Kings uses 1,312 distinct Chinese characters and 2,182 distinct words across 26,860 characters and 816 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 57.1% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 44th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 22 |
| Verses | 816 |
| Chinese characters | 26,860 |
| Distinct characters | 1,312 |
| Word tokens | 19,719 |
| Distinct words | 2,182 |
| Average verse | 33 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 57.1% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 70.1% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 25% |
| Difficulty rank | 44 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 103 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 王 | 369 |
| 2 | 说 | 359 |
| 3 | 耶和华 | 261 |
| 4 | 人 | 165 |
| 5 | 所罗门 | 165 |
| 6 | 以色列 | 153 |
| 7 | 儿子 | 122 |
| 8 | 有 | 115 |
| 9 | 去 | 108 |
| 10 | 殿 | 103 |
| 11 | 作 | 102 |
| 12 | 亚 | 101 |
| 13 | 必 | 98 |
| 14 | 使 | 95 |
| 15 | 耶 | 92 |
| 16 | 神 | 89 |
| 17 | 罗 | 88 |
| 18 | 行 | 87 |
| 19 | 安 | 87 |
| 20 | 拿 | 84 |
| 21 | 大卫 | 78 |
| 22 | 波 | 78 |
| 23 | 来 | 76 |
| 24 | 一 | 73 |
| 25 | 要 | 72 |
| 26 | 民 | 69 |
| 27 | 仆人 | 62 |
| 28 | 用 | 61 |
| 29 | 基 | 61 |
| 30 | 列 | 59 |
| 31 | 伯 | 59 |
| 32 | 先知 | 58 |
| 33 | 个 | 58 |
| 34 | 的话 | 57 |
| 35 | 事 | 57 |
| 36 | 亚哈 | 57 |
| 37 | 以利亚 | 55 |
| 38 | 比 | 54 |
| 39 | 雅 | 54 |
| 40 | 求 | 52 |
| 41 | 巴 | 51 |
| 42 | 以色列人 | 51 |
| 43 | 那里 | 50 |
| 44 | 利 | 50 |
| 45 | 给 | 50 |
| 46 | 两 | 49 |
| 47 | 坛 | 48 |
| 48 | 希 | 45 |
| 49 | 地 | 45 |
| 50 | 多 | 44 |

## Words found in 1 Kings and nowhere else

忠义 幼童 抓伤 央 供养 白头 山神 头套 闷闷不乐 官吏 棚顶 木制 璎珞 轴 枢

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 Kings 17 | 68.1% | 24 | 741 |
| 1 Kings 3 | 67.8% | 28 | 909 |
| 1 Kings 13 | 63.4% | 34 | 1,158 |
| 1 Kings 21 | 62.8% | 29 | 996 |
| 1 Kings 19 | 62% | 21 | 799 |
| 1 Kings 2 | 60.5% | 46 | 1,769 |
| 1 Kings 22 | 59.7% | 53 | 1,739 |
| 1 Kings 7 | 58.8% | 51 | 1,286 |
| 1 Kings 20 | 58.3% | 43 | 1,574 |
| 1 Kings 18 | 58.2% | 46 | 1,593 |
| 1 Kings 10 | 57.9% | 29 | 968 |
| 1 Kings 5 | 56.8% | 18 | 607 |
| 1 Kings 6 | 56.6% | 38 | 928 |
| 1 Kings 8 | 56.1% | 66 | 2,230 |
| 1 Kings 1 | 55.9% | 53 | 1,727 |
| 1 Kings 12 | 54.8% | 33 | 1,217 |
| 1 Kings 9 | 53.2% | 28 | 907 |
| 1 Kings 11 | 53% | 43 | 1,543 |
| 1 Kings 16 | 50.5% | 34 | 1,115 |
| 1 Kings 4 | 49.2% | 34 | 874 |
| 1 Kings 15 | 47.9% | 34 | 1,087 |
| 1 Kings 14 | 47.8% | 31 | 1,093 |

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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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