# Jeremiah in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Jeremiah uses 1,678 distinct Chinese characters and 3,139 distinct words across 50,586 characters and 1,361 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 58.3% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 38th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 52 |
| Verses | 1,361 |
| Chinese characters | 50,586 |
| Distinct characters | 1,678 |
| Word tokens | 35,552 |
| Distinct words | 3,139 |
| Average verse | 37 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 58.3% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 70.9% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 23.2% |
| Difficulty rank | 38 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 195 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 说 | 759 |
| 2 | 耶和华 | 737 |
| 3 | 必 | 481 |
| 4 | 要 | 385 |
| 5 | 人 | 365 |
| 6 | 使 | 269 |
| 7 | 王 | 233 |
| 8 | 地 | 229 |
| 9 | 犹大 | 197 |
| 10 | 巴比伦 | 184 |
| 11 | 有 | 165 |
| 12 | 的话 | 163 |
| 13 | 去 | 161 |
| 14 | 如此 | 161 |
| 15 | 因 | 160 |
| 16 | 神 | 157 |
| 17 | 耶利米 | 137 |
| 18 | 一切 | 136 |
| 19 | 来 | 130 |
| 20 | 儿子 | 124 |
| 21 | 利 | 118 |
| 22 | 以色列 | 116 |
| 23 | 耶路撒冷 | 112 |
| 24 | 行 | 111 |
| 25 | 底 | 110 |
| 26 | 城 | 103 |
| 27 | 临到 | 101 |
| 28 | 就是 | 101 |
| 29 | 先知 | 95 |
| 30 | 雅 | 94 |
| 31 | 军 | 94 |
| 32 | 亚 | 89 |
| 33 | 百姓 | 89 |
| 34 | 家 | 85 |
| 35 | 那里 | 85 |
| 36 | 万 | 84 |
| 37 | 用 | 83 |
| 38 | 众 | 78 |
| 39 | 西 | 77 |
| 40 | 手 | 75 |
| 41 | 听 | 75 |
| 42 | 不要 | 73 |
| 43 | 民 | 73 |
| 44 | 住 | 73 |
| 45 | 当 | 72 |
| 46 | 约 | 70 |
| 47 | 哪 | 69 |
| 48 | 大 | 69 |
| 49 | 攻击 | 68 |
| 50 | 勒 | 67 |

## Words found in Jeremiah and nowhere else

从宽 禀 坐大 松 古道 枷 含忍 大锤 极好 年满 可惊 骇 探问 契 画押 缄 火盆 密林 庙宇 天后 到此为止 跑来跑去 深密 轻轻 忽忽

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jeremiah 18 | 64.5% | 23 | 803 |
| Jeremiah 1 | 63.3% | 19 | 615 |
| Jeremiah 3 | 63.1% | 25 | 984 |
| Jeremiah 12 | 63% | 17 | 654 |
| Jeremiah 42 | 62.8% | 22 | 896 |
| Jeremiah 16 | 62.8% | 21 | 812 |
| Jeremiah 22 | 62.5% | 30 | 1,049 |
| Jeremiah 5 | 62.5% | 31 | 1,070 |
| Jeremiah 23 | 62.4% | 40 | 1,511 |
| Jeremiah 13 | 62.4% | 27 | 895 |
| Jeremiah 15 | 62.3% | 21 | 823 |
| Jeremiah 24 | 61.5% | 10 | 416 |
| Jeremiah 2 | 61.4% | 37 | 1,307 |
| Jeremiah 7 | 61.3% | 34 | 1,166 |
| Jeremiah 29 | 61.1% | 32 | 1,262 |
| Jeremiah 10 | 60.9% | 25 | 804 |
| Jeremiah 11 | 60.7% | 23 | 896 |
| Jeremiah 4 | 60.6% | 31 | 1,047 |
| Jeremiah 6 | 60% | 30 | 1,040 |
| Jeremiah 17 | 59.9% | 27 | 967 |
| Jeremiah 38 | 59.8% | 28 | 1,144 |
| Jeremiah 14 | 59.8% | 22 | 846 |
| Jeremiah 31 | 59.7% | 40 | 1,513 |
| Jeremiah 36 | 59.6% | 32 | 1,266 |
| Jeremiah 30 | 59.4% | 24 | 837 |
| Jeremiah 34 | 59.2% | 20 | 888 |
| Jeremiah 35 | 58.9% | 19 | 775 |
| Jeremiah 37 | 58.8% | 21 | 751 |
| Jeremiah 21 | 58.8% | 14 | 600 |
| Jeremiah 8 | 58.7% | 22 | 843 |
| Jeremiah 45 | 58.5% | 5 | 176 |
| Jeremiah 32 | 58.4% | 44 | 1,656 |
| Jeremiah 33 | 57.9% | 26 | 987 |
| Jeremiah 20 | 57.9% | 18 | 741 |
| Jeremiah 40 | 57.5% | 16 | 842 |
| Jeremiah 19 | 57.5% | 15 | 618 |
| Jeremiah 9 | 57.3% | 26 | 948 |
| Jeremiah 25 | 56.2% | 38 | 1,318 |
| Jeremiah 26 | 56.2% | 24 | 921 |
| Jeremiah 27 | 56.1% | 22 | 905 |
| Jeremiah 50 | 55.3% | 46 | 1,751 |
| Jeremiah 52 | 55.2% | 34 | 1,057 |
| Jeremiah 51 | 54.9% | 64 | 2,236 |
| Jeremiah 44 | 54.8% | 30 | 1,332 |
| Jeremiah 43 | 54.7% | 12 | 523 |
| Jeremiah 49 | 54.3% | 39 | 1,471 |
| Jeremiah 39 | 53% | 18 | 617 |
| Jeremiah 46 | 51.9% | 28 | 991 |
| Jeremiah 28 | 50.6% | 17 | 616 |
| Jeremiah 48 | 49.9% | 47 | 1,394 |
| Jeremiah 41 | 48.2% | 18 | 762 |
| Jeremiah 47 | 45.1% | 7 | 244 |

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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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