# Ephesians in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Ephesians uses 645 distinct Chinese characters and 800 distinct words across 3,938 characters and 154 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 59.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 30th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 6 |
| Verses | 154 |
| Chinese characters | 3,938 |
| Distinct characters | 645 |
| Word tokens | 2,689 |
| Distinct words | 800 |
| Average verse | 26 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 59.5% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 72.1% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 21.2% |
| Difficulty rank | 30 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 15 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 神 | 40 |
| 2 | 基督 | 40 |
| 3 | 人 | 35 |
| 4 | 要 | 31 |
| 5 | 主 | 24 |
| 6 | 叫 | 20 |
| 7 | 有 | 19 |
| 8 | 使 | 19 |
| 9 | 爱 | 16 |
| 10 | 作 | 15 |
| 11 | 就是 | 14 |
| 12 | 照 | 14 |
| 13 | 不要 | 14 |
| 14 | 耶稣 | 13 |
| 15 | 一切 | 13 |
| 16 | 当 | 13 |
| 17 | 教会 | 12 |
| 18 | 给 | 11 |
| 19 | 因 | 11 |
| 20 | 得 | 11 |
| 21 | 用 | 11 |
| 22 | 圣灵 | 11 |
| 23 | 知道 | 10 |
| 24 | 说 | 10 |
| 25 | 圣徒 | 9 |
| 26 | 借着 | 9 |
| 27 | 荣耀 | 9 |
| 28 | 奥秘 | 9 |
| 29 | 同 | 9 |
| 30 | 一 | 9 |
| 31 | 福音 | 9 |
| 32 | 赐 | 9 |
| 33 | 能 | 9 |
| 34 | 像 | 9 |
| 35 | 妻子 | 9 |
| 36 | 行 | 8 |
| 37 | 信 | 8 |
| 38 | 心 | 8 |
| 39 | 父 | 7 |
| 40 | 耶稣基督 | 7 |
| 41 | 天上 | 7 |
| 42 | 行事 | 7 |
| 43 | 一样 | 7 |
| 44 | 旨意 | 6 |
| 45 | 恩典 | 6 |
| 46 | 受 | 6 |
| 47 | 地 | 6 |
| 48 | 并且 | 6 |
| 49 | 充满 | 6 |
| 50 | 顺服 | 6 |

## Words found in Ephesians and nowhere else

冤仇 全副

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ephesians 1 | 63.2% | 23 | 668 |
| Ephesians 3 | 60.9% | 21 | 537 |
| Ephesians 5 | 59.5% | 33 | 727 |
| Ephesians 2 | 59.5% | 22 | 634 |
| Ephesians 6 | 58.2% | 23 | 632 |
| Ephesians 4 | 56% | 32 | 740 |

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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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