# Ezekiel in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Ezekiel uses 1,594 distinct Chinese characters and 2,874 distinct words across 42,983 characters and 1,270 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 60.3% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 28th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 48 |
| Verses | 1,270 |
| Chinese characters | 42,983 |
| Distinct characters | 1,594 |
| Word tokens | 31,433 |
| Distinct words | 2,874 |
| Average verse | 34 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 60.3% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 72.8% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 21% |
| Difficulty rank | 28 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 165 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 说 | 492 |
| 2 | 必 | 483 |
| 3 | 耶和华 | 438 |
| 4 | 要 | 393 |
| 5 | 人 | 334 |
| 6 | 使 | 262 |
| 7 | 地 | 234 |
| 8 | 有 | 233 |
| 9 | 主 | 223 |
| 10 | 一 | 189 |
| 11 | 以色列 | 180 |
| 12 | 肘 | 148 |
| 13 | 如此 | 142 |
| 14 | 行 | 129 |
| 15 | 因 | 115 |
| 16 | 一切 | 106 |
| 17 | 圣 | 99 |
| 18 | 用 | 98 |
| 19 | 人子 | 93 |
| 20 | 就是 | 92 |
| 21 | 门 | 91 |
| 22 | 知道 | 89 |
| 23 | 事 | 86 |
| 24 | 作 | 83 |
| 25 | 中间 | 78 |
| 26 | 殿 | 75 |
| 27 | 埃及 | 74 |
| 28 | 的话 | 73 |
| 29 | 家 | 72 |
| 30 | 临到 | 71 |
| 31 | 民 | 69 |
| 32 | 来 | 64 |
| 33 | 王 | 63 |
| 34 | 那里 | 62 |
| 35 | 去 | 59 |
| 36 | 带 | 59 |
| 37 | 不再 | 59 |
| 38 | 日 | 58 |
| 39 | 刀 | 57 |
| 40 | 五 | 56 |
| 41 | 其中 | 56 |
| 42 | 列国 | 56 |
| 43 | 祭 | 56 |
| 44 | 城 | 55 |
| 45 | 宽 | 55 |
| 46 | 可憎 | 51 |
| 47 | 长 | 51 |
| 48 | 四围 | 50 |
| 49 | 归 | 50 |
| 50 | 见 | 49 |

## Words found in Ezekiel and nowhere else

以西 一个样 泡 初生 丝绸 圆顶 不满意 相反 矮小 枝干 擦亮 路口 拥抱 抚摸 顿足 完人 自比 酬劳 难懂 搅 调转 左侧 侧卧 制 六分之一 门廊 门洞 长短 门柱 夹道 底座 磴 加油 浩 分之 着墨 盒子

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ezekiel 2 | 76.2% | 10 | 325 |
| Ezekiel 8 | 69.1% | 18 | 662 |
| Ezekiel 12 | 66.9% | 28 | 944 |
| Ezekiel 37 | 66.4% | 28 | 1,051 |
| Ezekiel 3 | 66.3% | 27 | 919 |
| Ezekiel 1 | 65.1% | 28 | 831 |
| Ezekiel 20 | 64.8% | 49 | 1,907 |
| Ezekiel 16 | 64.6% | 62 | 2,076 |
| Ezekiel 48 | 64.4% | 35 | 1,042 |
| Ezekiel 33 | 63.4% | 33 | 1,168 |
| Ezekiel 13 | 63.4% | 23 | 920 |
| Ezekiel 11 | 63.2% | 25 | 827 |
| Ezekiel 39 | 63% | 28 | 1,028 |
| Ezekiel 22 | 63% | 31 | 970 |
| Ezekiel 35 | 63% | 15 | 465 |
| Ezekiel 47 | 62.8% | 23 | 785 |
| Ezekiel 15 | 62.5% | 8 | 225 |
| Ezekiel 10 | 62.4% | 22 | 696 |
| Ezekiel 21 | 62.2% | 32 | 1,070 |
| Ezekiel 36 | 62% | 38 | 1,357 |
| Ezekiel 14 | 61.9% | 23 | 892 |
| Ezekiel 4 | 61.7% | 17 | 528 |
| Ezekiel 5 | 61.1% | 17 | 707 |
| Ezekiel 24 | 60.9% | 27 | 818 |
| Ezekiel 6 | 60.8% | 14 | 537 |
| Ezekiel 9 | 59.9% | 11 | 443 |
| Ezekiel 32 | 59.6% | 32 | 1,188 |
| Ezekiel 40 | 59.4% | 49 | 1,388 |
| Ezekiel 44 | 58% | 31 | 1,106 |
| Ezekiel 27 | 57.6% | 36 | 1,014 |
| Ezekiel 23 | 57.4% | 49 | 1,616 |
| Ezekiel 34 | 57.3% | 31 | 1,095 |
| Ezekiel 41 | 57.3% | 26 | 639 |
| Ezekiel 28 | 57.1% | 26 | 880 |
| Ezekiel 43 | 56.3% | 27 | 897 |
| Ezekiel 30 | 56% | 26 | 864 |
| Ezekiel 31 | 55.8% | 18 | 692 |
| Ezekiel 7 | 55.7% | 27 | 897 |
| Ezekiel 38 | 55.5% | 23 | 831 |
| Ezekiel 18 | 55.3% | 31 | 1,090 |
| Ezekiel 46 | 55.2% | 24 | 889 |
| Ezekiel 29 | 55% | 21 | 740 |
| Ezekiel 17 | 55% | 24 | 846 |
| Ezekiel 42 | 54.9% | 20 | 498 |
| Ezekiel 26 | 54.5% | 21 | 750 |
| Ezekiel 19 | 53.1% | 14 | 414 |
| Ezekiel 25 | 51.4% | 17 | 568 |
| Ezekiel 45 | 48.8% | 25 | 888 |

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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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