# Jonah in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Jonah uses 411 distinct Chinese characters and 393 distinct words across 1,450 characters and 48 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 61.5% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 21st of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 4 |
| Verses | 48 |
| Chinese characters | 1,450 |
| Distinct characters | 411 |
| Word tokens | 1,061 |
| Distinct words | 393 |
| Average verse | 30 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 61.5% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 73.1% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 20.4% |
| Difficulty rank | 21 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 6 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 耶和华 | 26 |
| 2 | 说 | 23 |
| 3 | 约 | 18 |
| 4 | 尼 | 18 |
| 5 | 神 | 16 |
| 6 | 拿 | 14 |
| 7 | 人 | 14 |
| 8 | 使 | 10 |
| 9 | 微 | 9 |
| 10 | 一 | 9 |
| 11 | 船 | 9 |
| 12 | 海 | 9 |
| 13 | 去 | 7 |
| 14 | 因 | 7 |
| 15 | 有 | 7 |
| 16 | 要 | 6 |
| 17 | 起来 | 5 |
| 18 | 往 | 5 |
| 19 | 便 | 5 |
| 20 | 鱼 | 5 |
| 21 | 发怒 | 5 |
| 22 | 死 | 5 |
| 23 | 蓖麻 | 5 |
| 24 | 的话 | 4 |
| 25 | 临到 | 4 |
| 26 | 施 | 4 |
| 27 | 求告 | 4 |
| 28 | 来 | 4 |
| 29 | 安排 | 4 |
| 30 | 日 | 4 |
| 31 | 城 | 4 |
| 32 | 大城 | 3 |
| 33 | 其中 | 3 |
| 34 | 恶 | 3 |
| 35 | 躲避 | 3 |
| 36 | 抛 | 3 |
| 37 | 哪 | 3 |
| 38 | 掣 | 3 |
| 39 | 灾 | 3 |
| 40 | 缘故 | 3 |
| 41 | 于是 | 3 |
| 42 | 大大 | 3 |
| 43 | 知道 | 3 |
| 44 | 海浪 | 3 |
| 45 | 大 | 3 |
| 46 | 三 | 3 |
| 47 | 夜 | 3 |
| 48 | 祷告 | 3 |
| 49 | 求 | 3 |
| 50 | 头 | 3 |

## Words found in Jonah and nowhere else

蓖麻

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jonah 1 | 65.5% | 17 | 570 |
| Jonah 2 | 61.2% | 10 | 247 |
| Jonah 4 | 61% | 11 | 361 |
| Jonah 3 | 54.1% | 10 | 272 |

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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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