# Malachi in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Malachi uses 508 distinct Chinese characters and 499 distinct words across 2,310 characters and 55 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 57.6% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 43rd of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 4 |
| Verses | 55 |
| Chinese characters | 2,310 |
| Distinct characters | 508 |
| Word tokens | 1,654 |
| Distinct words | 499 |
| Average verse | 42 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 57.6% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 70.2% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 21.9% |
| Difficulty rank | 43 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 9 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 耶和华 | 48 |
| 2 | 说 | 41 |
| 3 | 必 | 29 |
| 4 | 人 | 25 |
| 5 | 万 | 24 |
| 6 | 军 | 24 |
| 7 | 神 | 13 |
| 8 | 事 | 12 |
| 9 | 使 | 11 |
| 10 | 名 | 11 |
| 11 | 献 | 10 |
| 12 | 供物 | 10 |
| 13 | 有 | 9 |
| 14 | 当 | 9 |
| 15 | 一 | 8 |
| 16 | 行 | 8 |
| 17 | 敬畏 | 7 |
| 18 | 因 | 7 |
| 19 | 能 | 7 |
| 20 | 如 | 7 |
| 21 | 何 | 6 |
| 22 | 恶 | 6 |
| 23 | 诡诈 | 6 |
| 24 | 咒诅 | 6 |
| 25 | 以色列 | 5 |
| 26 | 地 | 5 |
| 27 | 要 | 5 |
| 28 | 大 | 5 |
| 29 | 藐视 | 5 |
| 30 | 可 | 5 |
| 31 | 给 | 5 |
| 32 | 岂 | 5 |
| 33 | 立 | 5 |
| 34 | 心 | 5 |
| 35 | 妻 | 5 |
| 36 | 转向 | 5 |
| 37 | 雅各 | 4 |
| 38 | 称 | 4 |
| 39 | 看 | 4 |
| 40 | 邦 | 4 |
| 41 | 用 | 4 |
| 42 | 未 | 4 |
| 43 | 约 | 4 |
| 44 | 律法 | 4 |
| 45 | 造 | 4 |
| 46 | 待 | 4 |
| 47 | 事奉 | 4 |
| 48 | 就是 | 4 |
| 49 | 得 | 4 |
| 50 | 日子 | 4 |

## Words found in Malachi and nowhere else

烦琐

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Malachi 2 | 60.8% | 17 | 732 |
| Malachi 1 | 58.7% | 14 | 643 |
| Malachi 3 | 55.4% | 18 | 721 |
| Malachi 4 | 50.7% | 6 | 214 |

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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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