# Obadiah in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Obadiah uses 277 distinct Chinese characters and 241 distinct words across 748 characters and 21 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 51.4% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 63rd of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 1 |
| Verses | 21 |
| Chinese characters | 748 |
| Distinct characters | 277 |
| Word tokens | 531 |
| Distinct words | 241 |
| Average verse | 36 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 51.4% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 68% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 24.3% |
| Difficulty rank | 63 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 3 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | Old Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 必 | 14 |
| 2 | 人 | 11 |
| 3 | 日子 | 9 |
| 4 | 耶和华 | 8 |
| 5 | 不当 | 8 |
| 6 | 说 | 7 |
| 7 | 山 | 7 |
| 8 | 扫 | 7 |
| 9 | 必得 | 6 |
| 10 | 以东 | 5 |
| 11 | 地 | 5 |
| 12 | 家 | 5 |
| 13 | 那里 | 4 |
| 14 | 有 | 4 |
| 15 | 竟 | 4 |
| 16 | 雅各 | 4 |
| 17 | 来 | 3 |
| 18 | 何 | 3 |
| 19 | 剪除 | 3 |
| 20 | 岂不 | 3 |
| 21 | 直到 | 3 |
| 22 | 且 | 3 |
| 23 | 灭 | 3 |
| 24 | 行 | 3 |
| 25 | 遭难 | 3 |
| 26 | 遭 | 3 |
| 27 | 灾 | 3 |
| 28 | 喝 | 3 |
| 29 | 列国 | 2 |
| 30 | 去 | 2 |
| 31 | 起来 | 2 |
| 32 | 一同 | 2 |
| 33 | 大 | 2 |
| 34 | 因 | 2 |
| 35 | 狂傲 | 2 |
| 36 | 心里 | 2 |
| 37 | 拉 | 2 |
| 38 | 如 | 2 |
| 39 | 若 | 2 |
| 40 | 葡萄 | 2 |
| 41 | 剩下 | 2 |
| 42 | 聪明 | 2 |
| 43 | 除 | 2 |
| 44 | 兄弟 | 2 |
| 45 | 财物 | 2 |
| 46 | 城门 | 2 |
| 47 | 耶路撒冷 | 2 |
| 48 | 站 | 2 |
| 49 | 瞪眼 | 2 |
| 50 | 看 | 2 |

## Words found in Obadiah and nowhere else

瞪眼

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Obadiah 1 | 51.4% | 21 | 748 |

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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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