# James in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> James uses 635 distinct Chinese characters and 707 distinct words across 3,072 characters and 108 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 64.9% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 8th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 5 |
| Verses | 108 |
| Chinese characters | 3,072 |
| Distinct characters | 635 |
| Word tokens | 2,146 |
| Distinct words | 707 |
| Average verse | 28 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 64.9% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 73.9% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 18% |
| Difficulty rank | 8 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 12 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 人 | 47 |
| 2 | 要 | 23 |
| 3 | 神 | 18 |
| 4 | 有 | 18 |
| 5 | 主 | 17 |
| 6 | 说 | 17 |
| 7 | 若 | 16 |
| 8 | 能 | 16 |
| 9 | 弟兄们 | 15 |
| 10 | 来 | 14 |
| 11 | 信心 | 13 |
| 12 | 律法 | 12 |
| 13 | 行为 | 12 |
| 14 | 得 | 11 |
| 15 | 不可 | 11 |
| 16 | 就是 | 11 |
| 17 | 哪 | 10 |
| 18 | 忍耐 | 8 |
| 19 | 给 | 8 |
| 20 | 用 | 8 |
| 21 | 看 | 8 |
| 22 | 中间 | 7 |
| 23 | 必 | 7 |
| 24 | 该 | 7 |
| 25 | 道 | 7 |
| 26 | 舌头 | 7 |
| 27 | 使 | 6 |
| 28 | 求 | 6 |
| 29 | 不要 | 6 |
| 30 | 试探 | 6 |
| 31 | 罪 | 6 |
| 32 | 死 | 6 |
| 33 | 叫 | 6 |
| 34 | 义 | 6 |
| 35 | 并且 | 6 |
| 36 | 有人 | 6 |
| 37 | 信 | 6 |
| 38 | 住 | 5 |
| 39 | 知道 | 5 |
| 40 | 智慧 | 5 |
| 41 | 行 | 5 |
| 42 | 富足 | 5 |
| 43 | 事 | 5 |
| 44 | 地 | 5 |
| 45 | 听 | 5 |
| 46 | 救 | 5 |
| 47 | 去 | 5 |
| 48 | 岂不 | 5 |
| 49 | 一 | 5 |
| 50 | 怜悯 | 5 |

## Words found in James and nowhere else

斗殴

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| James 2 | 68.3% | 26 | 708 |
| James 1 | 65.7% | 27 | 722 |
| James 3 | 65.1% | 18 | 510 |
| James 4 | 62.7% | 17 | 506 |
| James 5 | 61.6% | 20 | 626 |

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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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- Bible text: public domain — 和合本 · World English Bible · Louis Segond 1910.
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