# Ezra in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Ezra uses 847 distinct Chinese characters and 1,144 distinct words across 8,754 characters and 280 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 50.8% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 65th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 10 |
| Verses | 280 |
| Chinese characters | 8,754 |
| Distinct characters | 847 |
| Word tokens | 6,401 |
| Distinct words | 1,144 |
| Average verse | 31 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 50.8% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 63.6% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 28.3% |
| Difficulty rank | 65 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 34 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 子孙 | 119 |
| 2 | 人 | 118 |
| 3 | 利 | 82 |
| 4 | 神 | 78 |
| 5 | 王 | 76 |
| 6 | 雅 | 67 |
| 7 | 有 | 62 |
| 8 | 百 | 56 |
| 9 | 亚 | 56 |
| 10 | 耶路撒冷 | 48 |
| 11 | 名 | 48 |
| 12 | 殿 | 47 |
| 13 | 儿子 | 43 |
| 14 | 一 | 40 |
| 15 | 哈 | 38 |
| 16 | 耶和华 | 36 |
| 17 | 祭司 | 34 |
| 18 | 尼 | 32 |
| 19 | 说 | 31 |
| 20 | 以色列 | 30 |
| 21 | 玛 | 30 |
| 22 | 建造 | 28 |
| 23 | 拉 | 27 |
| 24 | 大 | 26 |
| 25 | 献 | 26 |
| 26 | 耶 | 26 |
| 27 | 示 | 26 |
| 28 | 士 | 25 |
| 29 | 要 | 25 |
| 30 | 未 | 25 |
| 31 | 就是 | 25 |
| 32 | 比 | 25 |
| 33 | 犹大 | 24 |
| 34 | 二 | 24 |
| 35 | 三 | 23 |
| 36 | 拿 | 22 |
| 37 | 斯 | 22 |
| 38 | 因 | 22 |
| 39 | 约 | 22 |
| 40 | 书 | 22 |
| 41 | 巴 | 22 |
| 42 | 二十 | 20 |
| 43 | 神殿 | 20 |
| 44 | 达 | 19 |
| 45 | 千 | 19 |
| 46 | 同 | 19 |
| 47 | 西 | 19 |
| 48 | 使 | 18 |
| 49 | 来 | 18 |
| 50 | 当 | 18 |

## Words found in Ezra and nowhere else

议定 云云 反叛 课 谕 经费

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ezra 9 | 60.1% | 15 | 760 |
| Ezra 8 | 55.7% | 36 | 1,273 |
| Ezra 5 | 52% | 17 | 604 |
| Ezra 1 | 51.2% | 11 | 415 |
| Ezra 7 | 49.9% | 28 | 994 |
| Ezra 4 | 49.6% | 24 | 811 |
| Ezra 2 | 49.2% | 70 | 1,265 |
| Ezra 6 | 48.8% | 22 | 847 |
| Ezra 3 | 47.9% | 13 | 598 |
| Ezra 10 | 45.6% | 44 | 1,187 |

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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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