# Mark in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Mark uses 1,227 distinct Chinese characters and 1,933 distinct words across 17,497 characters and 676 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 67.8% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 4th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 16 |
| Verses | 676 |
| Chinese characters | 17,497 |
| Distinct characters | 1,227 |
| Word tokens | 12,332 |
| Distinct words | 1,933 |
| Average verse | 26 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 67.8% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 76% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 18.6% |
| Difficulty rank | 4 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 67 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 说 | 321 |
| 2 | 耶稣 | 293 |
| 3 | 人 | 189 |
| 4 | 有 | 119 |
| 5 | 来 | 110 |
| 6 | 要 | 101 |
| 7 | 去 | 83 |
| 8 | 门徒 | 79 |
| 9 | 众人 | 59 |
| 10 | 一 | 57 |
| 11 | 神 | 54 |
| 12 | 叫 | 54 |
| 13 | 给 | 51 |
| 14 | 那里 | 49 |
| 15 | 看见 | 41 |
| 16 | 事 | 41 |
| 17 | 鬼 | 39 |
| 18 | 地 | 39 |
| 19 | 告诉 | 36 |
| 20 | 看 | 35 |
| 21 | 问 | 35 |
| 22 | 用 | 34 |
| 23 | 个 | 32 |
| 24 | 必 | 32 |
| 25 | 就是 | 31 |
| 26 | 许多 | 31 |
| 27 | 出来 | 30 |
| 28 | 约翰 | 28 |
| 29 | 拿 | 27 |
| 30 | 大 | 26 |
| 31 | 进 | 26 |
| 32 | 若 | 26 |
| 33 | 听见 | 26 |
| 34 | 做 | 26 |
| 35 | 有人 | 25 |
| 36 | 不要 | 25 |
| 37 | 起来 | 25 |
| 38 | 同 | 24 |
| 39 | 彼得 | 24 |
| 40 | 长 | 24 |
| 41 | 信 | 23 |
| 42 | 见 | 23 |
| 43 | 手 | 23 |
| 44 | 求 | 23 |
| 45 | 能 | 23 |
| 46 | 回答 | 23 |
| 47 | 两 | 23 |
| 48 | 道 | 22 |
| 49 | 带 | 22 |
| 50 | 文士 | 21 |

## Words found in Mark and nowhere else

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## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mark 4 | 71.7% | 41 | 975 |
| Mark 5 | 71% | 43 | 1,093 |
| Mark 16 | 70.2% | 20 | 559 |
| Mark 8 | 69.7% | 38 | 957 |
| Mark 9 | 69.5% | 50 | 1,326 |
| Mark 13 | 68.9% | 37 | 971 |
| Mark 6 | 68.8% | 56 | 1,475 |
| Mark 14 | 68.6% | 72 | 1,929 |
| Mark 11 | 68.2% | 33 | 952 |
| Mark 10 | 66.2% | 52 | 1,336 |
| Mark 2 | 65.9% | 28 | 832 |
| Mark 12 | 65.7% | 44 | 1,236 |
| Mark 3 | 65.3% | 35 | 802 |
| Mark 7 | 65.2% | 36 | 887 |
| Mark 1 | 64.7% | 45 | 1,056 |
| Mark 15 | 64.2% | 46 | 1,111 |

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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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