# Joel in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Joel uses 582 distinct Chinese characters and 588 distinct words across 2,259 characters and 73 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 55.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 52nd of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 3 |
| Verses | 73 |
| Chinese characters | 2,259 |
| Distinct characters | 582 |
| Word tokens | 1,548 |
| Distinct words | 588 |
| Average verse | 31 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 55.5% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 68.5% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 24.4% |
| Difficulty rank | 52 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 9 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 要 | 34 |
| 2 | 耶和华 | 33 |
| 3 | 必 | 20 |
| 4 | 有 | 15 |
| 5 | 人 | 14 |
| 6 | 使 | 14 |
| 7 | 神 | 12 |
| 8 | 日子 | 11 |
| 9 | 地 | 9 |
| 10 | 酒 | 8 |
| 11 | 大 | 8 |
| 12 | 说 | 8 |
| 13 | 百姓 | 8 |
| 14 | 哪 | 7 |
| 15 | 来 | 7 |
| 16 | 如 | 7 |
| 17 | 它们 | 7 |
| 18 | 当 | 6 |
| 19 | 子 | 6 |
| 20 | 谷 | 6 |
| 21 | 锡安 | 6 |
| 22 | 耶路撒冷 | 6 |
| 23 | 犹大 | 6 |
| 24 | 蝗虫 | 5 |
| 25 | 哀号 | 5 |
| 26 | 队 | 5 |
| 27 | 民 | 5 |
| 28 | 殿 | 5 |
| 29 | 旷野 | 5 |
| 30 | 烧 | 5 |
| 31 | 行 | 5 |
| 32 | 列国 | 5 |
| 33 | 卖 | 5 |
| 34 | 土 | 4 |
| 35 | 剩下 | 4 |
| 36 | 吃 | 4 |
| 37 | 树 | 4 |
| 38 | 尽 | 4 |
| 39 | 荒凉 | 4 |
| 40 | 油 | 4 |
| 41 | 田野 | 4 |
| 42 | 无 | 4 |
| 43 | 就是 | 4 |
| 44 | 聚集 | 4 |
| 45 | 报复 | 4 |
| 46 | 速 | 4 |
| 47 | 国中 | 3 |
| 48 | 居民 | 3 |
| 49 | 事 | 3 |
| 50 | 传 | 3 |

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joel 2 | 57.1% | 32 | 1,049 |
| Joel 3 | 55.4% | 21 | 623 |
| Joel 1 | 52.8% | 20 | 587 |

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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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