# Galatians in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Galatians uses 605 distinct Chinese characters and 757 distinct words across 4,182 characters and 149 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 61.7% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 18th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 6 |
| Verses | 149 |
| Chinese characters | 4,182 |
| Distinct characters | 605 |
| Word tokens | 2,867 |
| Distinct words | 757 |
| Average verse | 28 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 61.7% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 72.6% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 21.7% |
| Difficulty rank | 18 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 16 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 人 | 44 |
| 2 | 神 | 33 |
| 3 | 律法 | 33 |
| 4 | 基督 | 31 |
| 5 | 因 | 26 |
| 6 | 受 | 21 |
| 7 | 说 | 19 |
| 8 | 信 | 19 |
| 9 | 要 | 18 |
| 10 | 行 | 18 |
| 11 | 叫 | 17 |
| 12 | 若 | 17 |
| 13 | 给 | 16 |
| 14 | 割礼 | 16 |
| 15 | 福音 | 15 |
| 16 | 圣灵 | 15 |
| 17 | 去 | 13 |
| 18 | 义 | 13 |
| 19 | 作 | 12 |
| 20 | 有 | 12 |
| 21 | 儿子 | 12 |
| 22 | 使 | 12 |
| 23 | 传 | 11 |
| 24 | 应许 | 11 |
| 25 | 弟兄们 | 10 |
| 26 | 就是 | 10 |
| 27 | 现在 | 9 |
| 28 | 耶稣 | 9 |
| 29 | 十字架 | 9 |
| 30 | 亚伯拉罕 | 9 |
| 31 | 必 | 9 |
| 32 | 生 | 9 |
| 33 | 乃是 | 8 |
| 34 | 耶稣基督 | 8 |
| 35 | 称 | 8 |
| 36 | 凡 | 8 |
| 37 | 得 | 8 |
| 38 | 靠 | 8 |
| 39 | 本 | 8 |
| 40 | 咒诅 | 7 |
| 41 | 已经 | 7 |
| 42 | 同 | 7 |
| 43 | 一 | 7 |
| 44 | 外邦人 | 7 |
| 45 | 情欲 | 7 |
| 46 | 当 | 7 |
| 47 | 主 | 6 |
| 48 | 来 | 6 |
| 49 | 告诉 | 6 |
| 50 | 事 | 6 |

## Words found in Galatians and nowhere else

讨人

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Galatians 4 | 66.5% | 31 | 878 |
| Galatians 1 | 63.4% | 24 | 627 |
| Galatians 3 | 61.9% | 29 | 873 |
| Galatians 6 | 61.2% | 18 | 466 |
| Galatians 2 | 59.1% | 21 | 738 |
| Galatians 5 | 56.1% | 26 | 600 |

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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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