# Micah in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Micah uses 786 distinct Chinese characters and 890 distinct words across 3,712 characters and 105 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 54.9% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 54th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 7 |
| Verses | 105 |
| Chinese characters | 3,712 |
| Distinct characters | 786 |
| Word tokens | 2,619 |
| Distinct words | 890 |
| Average verse | 35 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 54.9% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 69.3% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 24.1% |
| Difficulty rank | 54 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 14 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 必 | 77 |
| 2 | 耶和华 | 45 |
| 3 | 要 | 35 |
| 4 | 人 | 24 |
| 5 | 民 | 22 |
| 6 | 说 | 21 |
| 7 | 行 | 19 |
| 8 | 使 | 17 |
| 9 | 地 | 13 |
| 10 | 如 | 12 |
| 11 | 神 | 12 |
| 12 | 哪 | 11 |
| 13 | 雅各 | 11 |
| 14 | 以色列 | 11 |
| 15 | 听 | 9 |
| 16 | 山 | 9 |
| 17 | 因 | 9 |
| 18 | 用 | 9 |
| 19 | 当 | 8 |
| 20 | 耶路撒冷 | 8 |
| 21 | 居民 | 8 |
| 22 | 那里 | 8 |
| 23 | 锡安 | 8 |
| 24 | 亚 | 7 |
| 25 | 仇敌 | 7 |
| 26 | 像 | 7 |
| 27 | 有 | 7 |
| 28 | 犹大 | 6 |
| 29 | 不要 | 6 |
| 30 | 事 | 6 |
| 31 | 去 | 6 |
| 32 | 手 | 6 |
| 33 | 日 | 6 |
| 34 | 家 | 6 |
| 35 | 中的 | 6 |
| 36 | 作 | 6 |
| 37 | 的话 | 6 |
| 38 | 中间 | 6 |
| 39 | 国 | 6 |
| 40 | 王 | 5 |
| 41 | 利 | 5 |
| 42 | 出 | 5 |
| 43 | 罪过 | 5 |
| 44 | 一切 | 5 |
| 45 | 归 | 5 |
| 46 | 出来 | 5 |
| 47 | 可 | 5 |
| 48 | 岂 | 5 |
| 49 | 起来 | 5 |
| 50 | 聚集 | 5 |

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Micah 7 | 57.9% | 20 | 683 |
| Micah 6 | 57.1% | 16 | 551 |
| Micah 2 | 57.1% | 13 | 472 |
| Micah 5 | 55.2% | 15 | 499 |
| Micah 4 | 53.8% | 13 | 536 |
| Micah 3 | 51.1% | 12 | 411 |
| Micah 1 | 50.4% | 16 | 560 |

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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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