# 1 Peter in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> 1 Peter uses 653 distinct Chinese characters and 757 distinct words across 3,315 characters and 105 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 56% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 51st of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 5 |
| Verses | 105 |
| Chinese characters | 3,315 |
| Distinct characters | 653 |
| Word tokens | 2,269 |
| Distinct words | 757 |
| Average verse | 32 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 56% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 70.3% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 20.9% |
| Difficulty rank | 51 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 13 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 神 | 42 |
| 2 | 要 | 37 |
| 3 | 人 | 30 |
| 4 | 因 | 19 |
| 5 | 叫 | 17 |
| 6 | 有 | 16 |
| 7 | 作 | 15 |
| 8 | 给 | 14 |
| 9 | 基督 | 14 |
| 10 | 主 | 13 |
| 11 | 受苦 | 13 |
| 12 | 就是 | 10 |
| 13 | 荣耀 | 10 |
| 14 | 若 | 10 |
| 15 | 耶稣基督 | 9 |
| 16 | 顺服 | 9 |
| 17 | 说 | 9 |
| 18 | 事 | 9 |
| 19 | 心 | 9 |
| 20 | 按 | 9 |
| 21 | 必 | 7 |
| 22 | 能 | 7 |
| 23 | 显现 | 7 |
| 24 | 既 | 7 |
| 25 | 灵 | 7 |
| 26 | 恩 | 7 |
| 27 | 圣洁 | 7 |
| 28 | 存 | 7 |
| 29 | 借着 | 6 |
| 30 | 蒙 | 6 |
| 31 | 归 | 6 |
| 32 | 信 | 6 |
| 33 | 爱 | 6 |
| 34 | 一切 | 6 |
| 35 | 乃是 | 6 |
| 36 | 不要 | 6 |
| 37 | 弟兄 | 6 |
| 38 | 彼此 | 6 |
| 39 | 拣选 | 5 |
| 40 | 得 | 5 |
| 41 | 愿 | 5 |
| 42 | 曾 | 5 |
| 43 | 宝贵 | 5 |
| 44 | 从前 | 5 |
| 45 | 行 | 5 |
| 46 | 敬畏 | 5 |
| 47 | 面前 | 5 |
| 48 | 好 | 5 |
| 49 | 恶 | 5 |
| 50 | 旨意 | 5 |

## Words found in 1 Peter and nowhere else

切实

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 Peter 1 | 59.9% | 25 | 827 |
| 1 Peter 3 | 55.9% | 22 | 692 |
| 1 Peter 2 | 55.7% | 25 | 769 |
| 1 Peter 4 | 53.5% | 19 | 573 |
| 1 Peter 5 | 52.8% | 14 | 454 |

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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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