# Judges in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Judges uses 1,242 distinct Chinese characters and 1,911 distinct words across 21,662 characters and 617 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 59.2% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 31st of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 21 |
| Verses | 617 |
| Chinese characters | 21,662 |
| Distinct characters | 1,242 |
| Word tokens | 15,866 |
| Distinct words | 1,911 |
| Average verse | 35 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 59.2% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 70.3% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 24.1% |
| Difficulty rank | 31 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 83 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 人 | 398 |
| 2 | 说 | 283 |
| 3 | 耶和华 | 173 |
| 4 | 亚 | 137 |
| 5 | 以色列人 | 124 |
| 6 | 米 | 117 |
| 7 | 去 | 111 |
| 8 | 基 | 92 |
| 9 | 一 | 91 |
| 10 | 有 | 83 |
| 11 | 勒 | 82 |
| 12 | 拉 | 79 |
| 13 | 比 | 78 |
| 14 | 地 | 75 |
| 15 | 雅 | 71 |
| 16 | 便 | 70 |
| 17 | 参孙 | 70 |
| 18 | 神 | 68 |
| 19 | 来 | 65 |
| 20 | 拿 | 64 |
| 21 | 基甸 | 63 |
| 22 | 住 | 60 |
| 23 | 行 | 60 |
| 24 | 以色列 | 60 |
| 25 | 列 | 59 |
| 26 | 要 | 58 |
| 27 | 迦 | 56 |
| 28 | 手 | 52 |
| 29 | 那里 | 51 |
| 30 | 给 | 51 |
| 31 | 悯 | 49 |
| 32 | 利 | 49 |
| 33 | 王 | 48 |
| 34 | 城 | 48 |
| 35 | 于是 | 46 |
| 36 | 儿子 | 46 |
| 37 | 巴 | 45 |
| 38 | 西 | 43 |
| 39 | 用 | 43 |
| 40 | 作 | 43 |
| 41 | 示 | 40 |
| 42 | 杀 | 36 |
| 43 | 妻 | 36 |
| 44 | 见 | 36 |
| 45 | 斯 | 35 |
| 46 | 求 | 34 |
| 47 | 玛 | 34 |
| 48 | 出来 | 34 |
| 49 | 起来 | 34 |
| 50 | 剑 | 34 |

## Words found in Judges and nowhere else

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## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Judges 19 | 70% | 30 | 1,067 |
| Judges 18 | 69.6% | 31 | 1,104 |
| Judges 14 | 65.8% | 20 | 790 |
| Judges 7 | 64.4% | 25 | 1,014 |
| Judges 6 | 62% | 40 | 1,463 |
| Judges 17 | 61.8% | 13 | 438 |
| Judges 16 | 61.1% | 31 | 1,288 |
| Judges 8 | 60.5% | 35 | 1,223 |
| Judges 13 | 60.4% | 25 | 881 |
| Judges 15 | 59.4% | 20 | 739 |
| Judges 21 | 58.5% | 25 | 829 |
| Judges 4 | 58.4% | 24 | 892 |
| Judges 9 | 58.3% | 57 | 1,852 |
| Judges 11 | 57% | 40 | 1,465 |
| Judges 20 | 56.1% | 47 | 1,587 |
| Judges 12 | 54.1% | 15 | 518 |
| Judges 2 | 53.2% | 23 | 819 |
| Judges 3 | 53% | 31 | 983 |
| Judges 5 | 52.5% | 31 | 953 |
| Judges 1 | 52.3% | 36 | 1,198 |
| Judges 10 | 49% | 18 | 559 |

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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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