# Job in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Job uses 1,574 distinct Chinese characters and 2,722 distinct words across 20,857 characters and 1,067 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 59.7% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 29th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 42 |
| Verses | 1,067 |
| Chinese characters | 20,857 |
| Distinct characters | 1,574 |
| Word tokens | 15,400 |
| Distinct words | 2,722 |
| Average verse | 20 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 59.7% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 74.4% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 18.6% |
| Difficulty rank | 29 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 80 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 人 | 241 |
| 2 | 神 | 161 |
| 3 | 说 | 138 |
| 4 | 有 | 120 |
| 5 | 要 | 115 |
| 6 | 必 | 114 |
| 7 | 使 | 112 |
| 8 | 能 | 89 |
| 9 | 若 | 68 |
| 10 | 岂 | 67 |
| 11 | 地 | 63 |
| 12 | 约伯 | 61 |
| 13 | 谁 | 61 |
| 14 | 因 | 60 |
| 15 | 如 | 58 |
| 16 | 回答 | 57 |
| 17 | 来 | 54 |
| 18 | 用 | 51 |
| 19 | 见 | 43 |
| 20 | 愿 | 42 |
| 21 | 去 | 41 |
| 22 | 手 | 40 |
| 23 | 言语 | 39 |
| 24 | 智慧 | 39 |
| 25 | 知道 | 37 |
| 26 | 口 | 37 |
| 27 | 无 | 36 |
| 28 | 日子 | 35 |
| 29 | 听 | 35 |
| 30 | 行 | 34 |
| 31 | 恶人 | 33 |
| 32 | 像 | 33 |
| 33 | 全能 | 32 |
| 34 | 得 | 31 |
| 35 | 还 | 30 |
| 36 | 不得 | 29 |
| 37 | 一 | 28 |
| 38 | 耶和华 | 28 |
| 39 | 不能 | 28 |
| 40 | 叫 | 27 |
| 41 | 死 | 26 |
| 42 | 黑暗 | 25 |
| 43 | 可 | 25 |
| 44 | 比 | 24 |
| 45 | 看 | 24 |
| 46 | 给 | 23 |
| 47 | 罪孽 | 23 |
| 48 | 道 | 23 |
| 49 | 过 | 22 |
| 50 | 面前 | 22 |

## Words found in Job and nowhere else

往返 高于 水气 消解 枯 辩白 细微 矿 翳 雷电 草丛 瞻望 出气 明理 冰 北斗 铮

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Job 42 | 67.9% | 17 | 516 |
| Job 13 | 67.4% | 28 | 536 |
| Job 23 | 66% | 17 | 333 |
| Job 33 | 65.3% | 33 | 585 |
| Job 17 | 64% | 16 | 329 |
| Job 1 | 63.9% | 22 | 696 |
| Job 32 | 63.7% | 22 | 458 |
| Job 19 | 63% | 29 | 544 |
| Job 9 | 63% | 35 | 623 |
| Job 16 | 62.8% | 22 | 424 |
| Job 29 | 62.8% | 25 | 439 |
| Job 2 | 62.4% | 13 | 420 |
| Job 10 | 62.4% | 21 | 467 |
| Job 14 | 61.9% | 22 | 443 |
| Job 18 | 61.8% | 21 | 407 |
| Job 22 | 61.6% | 30 | 564 |
| Job 34 | 61.2% | 37 | 691 |
| Job 35 | 61.1% | 16 | 302 |
| Job 15 | 61% | 35 | 691 |
| Job 20 | 60.9% | 29 | 584 |
| Job 38 | 60.6% | 39 | 712 |
| Job 40 | 60% | 24 | 421 |
| Job 21 | 59.7% | 34 | 612 |
| Job 8 | 59.7% | 22 | 395 |
| Job 7 | 59.3% | 21 | 446 |
| Job 12 | 59.2% | 25 | 480 |
| Job 11 | 59.1% | 20 | 394 |
| Job 41 | 58.8% | 34 | 604 |
| Job 37 | 58.5% | 24 | 441 |
| Job 39 | 56.8% | 30 | 572 |
| Job 30 | 56.5% | 31 | 593 |
| Job 26 | 56.4% | 14 | 234 |
| Job 4 | 55.3% | 21 | 406 |
| Job 31 | 55.2% | 40 | 776 |
| Job 36 | 55.1% | 33 | 617 |
| Job 27 | 54.5% | 23 | 434 |
| Job 6 | 54.3% | 30 | 558 |
| Job 5 | 54% | 27 | 535 |
| Job 3 | 53.4% | 26 | 477 |
| Job 24 | 51.6% | 25 | 541 |
| Job 25 | 50% | 6 | 95 |
| Job 28 | 46.1% | 28 | 462 |

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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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