# Haggai in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Haggai uses 331 distinct Chinese characters and 312 distinct words across 1,285 characters and 38 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 56.8% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 47th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 2 |
| Verses | 38 |
| Chinese characters | 1,285 |
| Distinct characters | 331 |
| Word tokens | 875 |
| Distinct words | 312 |
| Average verse | 34 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 56.8% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 67.2% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 26.5% |
| Difficulty rank | 47 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 5 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 耶和华 | 32 |
| 2 | 说 | 32 |
| 3 | 万 | 13 |
| 4 | 军 | 13 |
| 5 | 必 | 11 |
| 6 | 儿子 | 10 |
| 7 | 日 | 9 |
| 8 | 哈 | 9 |
| 9 | 该 | 9 |
| 10 | 如此 | 9 |
| 11 | 殿 | 9 |
| 12 | 的话 | 8 |
| 13 | 要 | 8 |
| 14 | 所罗巴伯 | 7 |
| 15 | 百姓 | 7 |
| 16 | 二十 | 7 |
| 17 | 撒 | 6 |
| 18 | 先知 | 5 |
| 19 | 撒拉铁 | 5 |
| 20 | 答 | 5 |
| 21 | 大祭司 | 5 |
| 22 | 约书亚 | 5 |
| 23 | 临到 | 5 |
| 24 | 犹大 | 4 |
| 25 | 省长 | 4 |
| 26 | 和约 | 4 |
| 27 | 得 | 4 |
| 28 | 地 | 4 |
| 29 | 来 | 4 |
| 30 | 四 | 4 |
| 31 | 荣耀 | 4 |
| 32 | 有人 | 4 |
| 33 | 大 | 3 |
| 34 | 流 | 3 |
| 35 | 士 | 3 |
| 36 | 王 | 3 |
| 37 | 第二 | 3 |
| 38 | 年 | 3 |
| 39 | 来到 | 3 |
| 40 | 那时 | 3 |
| 41 | 现在 | 3 |
| 42 | 不得 | 3 |
| 43 | 酒 | 3 |
| 44 | 剩下 | 3 |
| 45 | 神 | 3 |
| 46 | 有 | 3 |
| 47 | 当 | 3 |
| 48 | 刚强 | 3 |
| 49 | 震动 | 3 |
| 50 | 祭司 | 3 |

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Haggai 2 | 57.7% | 23 | 775 |
| Haggai 1 | 55.4% | 15 | 510 |

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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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