# 1 Timothy in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> 1 Timothy uses 629 distinct Chinese characters and 761 distinct words across 3,075 characters and 113 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 56.7% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 48th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 6 |
| Verses | 113 |
| Chinese characters | 3,075 |
| Distinct characters | 629 |
| Word tokens | 2,112 |
| Distinct words | 761 |
| Average verse | 27 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 56.7% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 69.8% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 21.5% |
| Difficulty rank | 48 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 12 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 人 | 37 |
| 2 | 要 | 28 |
| 3 | 神 | 24 |
| 4 | 作 | 19 |
| 5 | 有 | 19 |
| 6 | 真道 | 13 |
| 7 | 基督 | 12 |
| 8 | 耶稣 | 11 |
| 9 | 不可 | 11 |
| 10 | 因 | 10 |
| 11 | 事 | 10 |
| 12 | 叫 | 10 |
| 13 | 若 | 10 |
| 14 | 主 | 9 |
| 15 | 好 | 9 |
| 16 | 无 | 9 |
| 17 | 这些 | 9 |
| 18 | 说 | 9 |
| 19 | 寡妇 | 9 |
| 20 | 给 | 8 |
| 21 | 就是 | 8 |
| 22 | 只要 | 8 |
| 23 | 可 | 8 |
| 24 | 敬虔 | 8 |
| 25 | 信 | 7 |
| 26 | 如同 | 7 |
| 27 | 面前 | 7 |
| 28 | 家 | 7 |
| 29 | 当 | 7 |
| 30 | 真 | 6 |
| 31 | 去 | 6 |
| 32 | 劝 | 6 |
| 33 | 嘱咐 | 6 |
| 34 | 的话 | 6 |
| 35 | 信心 | 6 |
| 36 | 有人 | 6 |
| 37 | 话 | 6 |
| 38 | 不能 | 6 |
| 39 | 美好 | 6 |
| 40 | 女人 | 6 |
| 41 | 执事 | 6 |
| 42 | 愿 | 5 |
| 43 | 清洁 | 5 |
| 44 | 良心 | 5 |
| 45 | 来 | 5 |
| 46 | 得 | 5 |
| 47 | 蒙 | 5 |
| 48 | 使 | 5 |
| 49 | 受 | 5 |
| 50 | 如此 | 5 |

## Words found in 1 Timothy and nowhere else

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## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 Timothy 4 | 62.1% | 16 | 427 |
| 1 Timothy 1 | 57.6% | 20 | 607 |
| 1 Timothy 5 | 57.3% | 25 | 660 |
| 1 Timothy 6 | 55.2% | 21 | 643 |
| 1 Timothy 3 | 54.4% | 16 | 415 |
| 1 Timothy 2 | 52.5% | 15 | 323 |

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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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