# Acts in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Acts uses 1,377 distinct Chinese characters and 2,628 distinct words across 28,933 characters and 1,001 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 63.2% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 14th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 28 |
| Verses | 1,001 |
| Chinese characters | 28,933 |
| Distinct characters | 1,377 |
| Word tokens | 20,418 |
| Distinct words | 2,628 |
| Average verse | 29 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 63.2% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 72.4% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 21.9% |
| Difficulty rank | 14 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 111 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 说 | 337 |
| 2 | 人 | 334 |
| 3 | 保罗 | 183 |
| 4 | 神 | 179 |
| 5 | 有 | 176 |
| 6 | 去 | 172 |
| 7 | 要 | 130 |
| 8 | 主 | 120 |
| 9 | 来 | 114 |
| 10 | 亚 | 103 |
| 11 | 事 | 97 |
| 12 | 叫 | 95 |
| 13 | 那里 | 92 |
| 14 | 犹太人 | 75 |
| 15 | 众人 | 74 |
| 16 | 彼得 | 70 |
| 17 | 住 | 68 |
| 18 | 道 | 68 |
| 19 | 耶稣 | 63 |
| 20 | 行 | 61 |
| 21 | 利 | 61 |
| 22 | 耶路撒冷 | 60 |
| 23 | 巴 | 60 |
| 24 | 长 | 58 |
| 25 | 拿 | 57 |
| 26 | 听见 | 55 |
| 27 | 一 | 55 |
| 28 | 往 | 55 |
| 29 | 地 | 54 |
| 30 | 给 | 54 |
| 31 | 看见 | 54 |
| 32 | 话 | 52 |
| 33 | 于是 | 52 |
| 34 | 作 | 51 |
| 35 | 圣灵 | 50 |
| 36 | 就是 | 50 |
| 37 | 同 | 50 |
| 38 | 使徒 | 48 |
| 39 | 听 | 47 |
| 40 | 信 | 47 |
| 41 | 站 | 45 |
| 42 | 得 | 44 |
| 43 | 见 | 43 |
| 44 | 起来 | 43 |
| 45 | 用 | 42 |
| 46 | 带 | 42 |
| 47 | 知道 | 41 |
| 48 | 提 | 40 |
| 49 | 门徒 | 39 |
| 50 | 百姓 | 39 |

## Words found in Acts and nowhere else

大马 硝 皮匠 凡俗 塞浦路斯 大数 开船 兄台 宙斯 跳进 诉说 监门 本着 地方官 鬼神 乡谈 公用 避讳 父兄 拷问 文书 被告 非斯 禀报 行船 缆索 深浅 船头 土人 部

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Acts 22 | 70% | 30 | 917 |
| Acts 28 | 67.9% | 30 | 919 |
| Acts 10 | 66% | 48 | 1,294 |
| Acts 1 | 65.4% | 25 | 852 |
| Acts 25 | 64.7% | 27 | 914 |
| Acts 16 | 64.6% | 40 | 1,148 |
| Acts 14 | 64.6% | 28 | 751 |
| Acts 19 | 64.1% | 41 | 1,213 |
| Acts 24 | 64% | 26 | 755 |
| Acts 13 | 63.6% | 52 | 1,519 |
| Acts 2 | 63.6% | 47 | 1,243 |
| Acts 8 | 63.6% | 39 | 997 |
| Acts 3 | 63.3% | 26 | 755 |
| Acts 5 | 63.2% | 42 | 1,184 |
| Acts 23 | 62.9% | 35 | 1,046 |
| Acts 9 | 62.9% | 43 | 1,198 |
| Acts 20 | 62.8% | 38 | 1,093 |
| Acts 4 | 62.8% | 36 | 1,006 |
| Acts 26 | 62.5% | 32 | 947 |
| Acts 11 | 62.5% | 30 | 814 |
| Acts 21 | 62.4% | 40 | 1,256 |
| Acts 7 | 61.8% | 60 | 1,724 |
| Acts 27 | 61.7% | 44 | 1,207 |
| Acts 12 | 60.8% | 25 | 723 |
| Acts 17 | 60.7% | 34 | 1,052 |
| Acts 6 | 60.3% | 15 | 443 |
| Acts 18 | 58.2% | 28 | 812 |
| Acts 15 | 58% | 40 | 1,151 |

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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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