# Habakkuk in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Habakkuk uses 572 distinct Chinese characters and 562 distinct words across 1,657 characters and 56 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 54.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 57th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 3 |
| Verses | 56 |
| Chinese characters | 1,657 |
| Distinct characters | 572 |
| Word tokens | 1,171 |
| Distinct words | 562 |
| Average verse | 30 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 54.5% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 66.6% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 24.9% |
| Difficulty rank | 57 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 6 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 人 | 17 |
| 2 | 耶和华 | 15 |
| 3 | 要 | 12 |
| 4 | 有 | 10 |
| 5 | 因 | 9 |
| 6 | 说 | 7 |
| 7 | 使 | 7 |
| 8 | 如 | 7 |
| 9 | 强暴 | 6 |
| 10 | 看 | 6 |
| 11 | 必 | 6 |
| 12 | 民 | 6 |
| 13 | 为何 | 5 |
| 14 | 行 | 5 |
| 15 | 用 | 5 |
| 16 | 祸 | 5 |
| 17 | 列国 | 4 |
| 18 | 迦 | 4 |
| 19 | 勒 | 4 |
| 20 | 底 | 4 |
| 21 | 来 | 4 |
| 22 | 神 | 4 |
| 23 | 网 | 4 |
| 24 | 拉 | 4 |
| 25 | 大地 | 4 |
| 26 | 巴 | 3 |
| 27 | 默示 | 3 |
| 28 | 还 | 3 |
| 29 | 拯救 | 3 |
| 30 | 起 | 3 |
| 31 | 事 | 3 |
| 32 | 恶人 | 3 |
| 33 | 观看 | 3 |
| 34 | 就是 | 3 |
| 35 | 马 | 3 |
| 36 | 比 | 3 |
| 37 | 聚集 | 3 |
| 38 | 一切 | 3 |
| 39 | 海 | 3 |
| 40 | 得 | 3 |
| 41 | 可 | 3 |
| 42 | 立 | 3 |
| 43 | 地 | 3 |
| 44 | 临到 | 3 |
| 45 | 这些 | 3 |
| 46 | 岂不 | 3 |
| 47 | 城 | 3 |
| 48 | 荣耀 | 3 |
| 49 | 充满 | 3 |
| 50 | 见 | 3 |

## Words found in Habakkuk and nowhere else

汹涌

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Habakkuk 2 | 56% | 20 | 628 |
| Habakkuk 1 | 56% | 17 | 477 |
| Habakkuk 3 | 51.5% | 19 | 552 |

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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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