# Colossians in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Colossians uses 558 distinct Chinese characters and 628 distinct words across 2,835 characters and 94 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 61.2% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 25th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 4 |
| Verses | 94 |
| Chinese characters | 2,835 |
| Distinct characters | 558 |
| Word tokens | 1,959 |
| Distinct words | 628 |
| Average verse | 30 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 61.2% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 74.1% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 19.9% |
| Difficulty rank | 25 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 11 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 要 | 29 |
| 2 | 基督 | 28 |
| 3 | 神 | 26 |
| 4 | 人 | 21 |
| 5 | 主 | 16 |
| 6 | 一切 | 16 |
| 7 | 叫 | 16 |
| 8 | 作 | 12 |
| 9 | 有 | 12 |
| 10 | 地 | 11 |
| 11 | 因 | 10 |
| 12 | 一同 | 10 |
| 13 | 里面 | 9 |
| 14 | 用 | 8 |
| 15 | 心 | 8 |
| 16 | 事 | 8 |
| 17 | 给 | 7 |
| 18 | 就是 | 7 |
| 19 | 那里 | 7 |
| 20 | 受 | 7 |
| 21 | 安 | 7 |
| 22 | 福音 | 6 |
| 23 | 智慧 | 6 |
| 24 | 知道 | 6 |
| 25 | 照 | 6 |
| 26 | 得 | 6 |
| 27 | 心里 | 6 |
| 28 | 割礼 | 6 |
| 29 | 不可 | 6 |
| 30 | 问 | 6 |
| 31 | 耶稣 | 5 |
| 32 | 父 | 5 |
| 33 | 感谢 | 5 |
| 34 | 祷告 | 5 |
| 35 | 爱心 | 5 |
| 36 | 仆人 | 5 |
| 37 | 凡事 | 5 |
| 38 | 造 | 5 |
| 39 | 借着 | 5 |
| 40 | 教会 | 5 |
| 41 | 死 | 5 |
| 42 | 奥秘 | 5 |
| 43 | 各人 | 5 |
| 44 | 老底 | 5 |
| 45 | 嘉 | 5 |
| 46 | 当 | 5 |
| 47 | 去 | 5 |
| 48 | 做 | 5 |
| 49 | 圣徒 | 4 |
| 50 | 忠心 | 4 |

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Colossians 4 | 63.8% | 18 | 556 |
| Colossians 1 | 62.7% | 29 | 910 |
| Colossians 3 | 60.1% | 25 | 682 |
| Colossians 2 | 57.8% | 22 | 687 |

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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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