# Leviticus in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Leviticus uses 1,094 distinct Chinese characters and 1,626 distinct words across 25,598 characters and 858 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 58.9% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 34th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 27 |
| Verses | 858 |
| Chinese characters | 25,598 |
| Distinct characters | 1,094 |
| Word tokens | 18,811 |
| Distinct words | 1,626 |
| Average verse | 30 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 58.9% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 70.7% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 21.5% |
| Difficulty rank | 34 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 98 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 要 | 507 |
| 2 | 耶和华 | 313 |
| 3 | 祭 | 254 |
| 4 | 不可 | 202 |
| 5 | 洁净 | 182 |
| 6 | 祭司 | 171 |
| 7 | 若 | 153 |
| 8 | 人 | 144 |
| 9 | 献 | 139 |
| 10 | 圣 | 126 |
| 11 | 给 | 122 |
| 12 | 必 | 109 |
| 13 | 就要 | 106 |
| 14 | 一 | 106 |
| 15 | 赎罪 | 98 |
| 16 | 地 | 96 |
| 17 | 油 | 95 |
| 18 | 坛 | 91 |
| 19 | 用 | 88 |
| 20 | 或是 | 88 |
| 21 | 吃 | 86 |
| 22 | 面前 | 85 |
| 23 | 火 | 85 |
| 24 | 血 | 84 |
| 25 | 亚伦 | 83 |
| 26 | 摩西 | 82 |
| 27 | 说 | 82 |
| 28 | 只 | 78 |
| 29 | 燔 | 66 |
| 30 | 有 | 60 |
| 31 | 七 | 60 |
| 32 | 病 | 60 |
| 33 | 灾 | 59 |
| 34 | 年 | 58 |
| 35 | 作 | 57 |
| 36 | 脂 | 57 |
| 37 | 物 | 57 |
| 38 | 凡 | 57 |
| 39 | 归 | 56 |
| 40 | 就是 | 54 |
| 41 | 神 | 53 |
| 42 | 罪 | 53 |
| 43 | 以色列人 | 50 |
| 44 | 行 | 50 |
| 45 | 取 | 48 |
| 46 | 使 | 46 |
| 47 | 吩咐 | 44 |
| 48 | 无论 | 43 |
| 49 | 天 | 43 |
| 50 | 赎 | 42 |

## Words found in Leviticus and nowhere else

脏腑 炉子 家居 肉皮 疖子 癣 现象 发散 发暗 疖 瘀 红肉 白毛 风灾 纬 蚕食 涮 行经 泻 外孙女 姑母 姨母 煎 赎罪日 估 推算 靠腰 遗失 调匀

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Leviticus 25 | 65.2% | 55 | 1,608 |
| Leviticus 26 | 63.2% | 46 | 1,490 |
| Leviticus 8 | 62.5% | 36 | 1,066 |
| Leviticus 13 | 61.5% | 59 | 1,918 |
| Leviticus 12 | 61.5% | 8 | 266 |
| Leviticus 10 | 61.4% | 20 | 771 |
| Leviticus 3 | 60.8% | 16 | 507 |
| Leviticus 15 | 60.6% | 33 | 868 |
| Leviticus 14 | 60.3% | 57 | 1,596 |
| Leviticus 18 | 60.2% | 30 | 811 |
| Leviticus 24 | 59.7% | 23 | 622 |
| Leviticus 11 | 59.6% | 47 | 1,121 |
| Leviticus 20 | 59.6% | 27 | 893 |
| Leviticus 17 | 58.4% | 16 | 551 |
| Leviticus 23 | 58.3% | 44 | 1,305 |
| Leviticus 4 | 58% | 35 | 1,014 |
| Leviticus 27 | 57.6% | 34 | 1,052 |
| Leviticus 9 | 57.4% | 24 | 689 |
| Leviticus 7 | 56.7% | 38 | 1,053 |
| Leviticus 1 | 56.2% | 17 | 493 |
| Leviticus 19 | 55.2% | 37 | 1,052 |
| Leviticus 16 | 54.8% | 34 | 1,093 |
| Leviticus 6 | 54.5% | 30 | 937 |
| Leviticus 5 | 54.2% | 19 | 768 |
| Leviticus 2 | 53.5% | 16 | 484 |
| Leviticus 22 | 53.2% | 33 | 967 |
| Leviticus 21 | 51.4% | 24 | 603 |

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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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