# Nahum in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Nahum uses 569 distinct Chinese characters and 537 distinct words across 1,486 characters and 47 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 51.3% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 64th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 3 |
| Verses | 47 |
| Chinese characters | 1,486 |
| Distinct characters | 569 |
| Word tokens | 1,093 |
| Distinct words | 537 |
| Average verse | 32 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 51.3% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 66.5% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 24.5% |
| Difficulty rank | 64 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 6 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 尼 | 20 |
| 2 | 必 | 16 |
| 3 | 人 | 14 |
| 4 | 耶和华 | 11 |
| 5 | 微 | 10 |
| 6 | 使 | 10 |
| 7 | 说 | 7 |
| 8 | 多 | 7 |
| 9 | 如 | 6 |
| 10 | 狮 | 6 |
| 11 | 因 | 5 |
| 12 | 有 | 5 |
| 13 | 去 | 5 |
| 14 | 报 | 4 |
| 15 | 仇敌 | 4 |
| 16 | 谁 | 4 |
| 17 | 保障 | 4 |
| 18 | 不再 | 4 |
| 19 | 灭 | 4 |
| 20 | 施 | 3 |
| 21 | 万 | 3 |
| 22 | 海 | 3 |
| 23 | 小 | 3 |
| 24 | 如火 | 3 |
| 25 | 攻击 | 3 |
| 26 | 必将 | 3 |
| 27 | 像 | 3 |
| 28 | 一 | 3 |
| 29 | 现在 | 3 |
| 30 | 空虚 | 3 |
| 31 | 预备 | 3 |
| 32 | 车辆 | 3 |
| 33 | 行 | 3 |
| 34 | 聚 | 3 |
| 35 | 充满 | 3 |
| 36 | 人民 | 3 |
| 37 | 如同 | 3 |
| 38 | 无人 | 3 |
| 39 | 狮子 | 3 |
| 40 | 撕碎 | 3 |
| 41 | 军 | 3 |
| 42 | 落 | 3 |
| 43 | 蝻 | 3 |
| 44 | 子 | 3 |
| 45 | 默示 | 2 |
| 46 | 神 | 2 |
| 47 | 大有 | 2 |
| 48 | 忿怒 | 2 |
| 49 | 来 | 2 |
| 50 | 一切 | 2 |

## Words found in Nahum and nowhere else

掐死

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nahum 3 | 56.2% | 19 | 577 |
| Nahum 1 | 51.2% | 15 | 492 |
| Nahum 2 | 43.9% | 13 | 417 |

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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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