# Exodus in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Exodus uses 1,415 distinct Chinese characters and 2,395 distinct words across 35,177 characters and 1,212 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 61.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 20th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 40 |
| Verses | 1,212 |
| Chinese characters | 35,177 |
| Distinct characters | 1,415 |
| Word tokens | 25,560 |
| Distinct words | 2,395 |
| Average verse | 29 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 61.5% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 71.6% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 22.8% |
| Difficulty rank | 20 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 135 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 要 | 526 |
| 2 | 耶和华 | 412 |
| 3 | 说 | 316 |
| 4 | 摩西 | 303 |
| 5 | 做 | 223 |
| 6 | 人 | 202 |
| 7 | 用 | 185 |
| 8 | 埃及 | 182 |
| 9 | 百姓 | 150 |
| 10 | 有 | 139 |
| 11 | 去 | 136 |
| 12 | 神 | 136 |
| 13 | 一 | 132 |
| 14 | 亚伦 | 122 |
| 15 | 法老 | 116 |
| 16 | 以色列人 | 115 |
| 17 | 地 | 112 |
| 18 | 使 | 107 |
| 19 | 坛 | 103 |
| 20 | 不可 | 100 |
| 21 | 两 | 94 |
| 22 | 必 | 94 |
| 23 | 来 | 93 |
| 24 | 个 | 93 |
| 25 | 金 | 92 |
| 26 | 一切 | 90 |
| 27 | 行 | 87 |
| 28 | 给 | 79 |
| 29 | 圣 | 77 |
| 30 | 吩咐 | 75 |
| 31 | 儿子 | 74 |
| 32 | 若 | 72 |
| 33 | 子 | 69 |
| 34 | 座 | 61 |
| 35 | 面前 | 61 |
| 36 | 帐幕 | 61 |
| 37 | 叫 | 60 |
| 38 | 肘 | 60 |
| 39 | 带 | 58 |
| 40 | 以色列 | 57 |
| 41 | 幔子 | 55 |
| 42 | 得 | 54 |
| 43 | 日 | 54 |
| 44 | 拿 | 52 |
| 45 | 就是 | 52 |
| 46 | 出来 | 51 |
| 47 | 领 | 51 |
| 48 | 板 | 48 |
| 49 | 卯 | 48 |
| 50 | 利 | 47 |

## Words found in Exodus and nowhere else

饭量 五脏 哈希 回流 西坡拉 坠胎 还本 幅 做帐 钮扣 两相 顶盖 榫 银座 上半 上当 围腰 下达 半腰 杂色 肩带 图书 决断 领口 将牌 牙子 圣膏油 精工 面皮 中亚 拙 笨 郎 江 起泡

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Exodus 33 | 67.9% | 23 | 806 |
| Exodus 2 | 66.9% | 25 | 740 |
| Exodus 4 | 66.1% | 31 | 935 |
| Exodus 13 | 66% | 22 | 736 |
| Exodus 25 | 65.1% | 40 | 813 |
| Exodus 16 | 64.8% | 36 | 1,154 |
| Exodus 10 | 64.8% | 29 | 1,024 |
| Exodus 32 | 64.5% | 35 | 1,161 |
| Exodus 3 | 64.5% | 22 | 884 |
| Exodus 5 | 64.4% | 23 | 687 |
| Exodus 11 | 64.4% | 10 | 351 |
| Exodus 29 | 63.4% | 46 | 1,345 |
| Exodus 12 | 63.3% | 51 | 1,570 |
| Exodus 8 | 63.1% | 32 | 1,057 |
| Exodus 19 | 63% | 25 | 772 |
| Exodus 23 | 62.5% | 33 | 961 |
| Exodus 21 | 62.3% | 36 | 924 |
| Exodus 27 | 62.2% | 21 | 576 |
| Exodus 14 | 61.9% | 31 | 1,003 |
| Exodus 34 | 61.7% | 35 | 1,140 |
| Exodus 17 | 61.7% | 16 | 558 |
| Exodus 9 | 61.4% | 35 | 1,049 |
| Exodus 28 | 61.2% | 43 | 1,296 |
| Exodus 7 | 60.9% | 25 | 729 |
| Exodus 31 | 60.9% | 18 | 478 |
| Exodus 38 | 60.4% | 30 | 924 |
| Exodus 37 | 60% | 29 | 629 |
| Exodus 26 | 59.4% | 37 | 918 |
| Exodus 6 | 59.2% | 30 | 881 |
| Exodus 18 | 59% | 27 | 890 |
| Exodus 36 | 58.7% | 38 | 988 |
| Exodus 15 | 58.3% | 27 | 808 |
| Exodus 20 | 58.3% | 26 | 606 |
| Exodus 40 | 58.2% | 38 | 792 |
| Exodus 22 | 57.6% | 31 | 887 |
| Exodus 30 | 57.1% | 38 | 1,029 |
| Exodus 35 | 56.3% | 35 | 880 |
| Exodus 39 | 55.8% | 43 | 1,140 |
| Exodus 24 | 55% | 18 | 506 |
| Exodus 1 | 54.3% | 22 | 550 |

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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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