# Philippians in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Philippians uses 549 distinct Chinese characters and 642 distinct words across 2,970 characters and 104 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 61.1% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 26th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 4 |
| Verses | 104 |
| Chinese characters | 2,970 |
| Distinct characters | 549 |
| Word tokens | 2,007 |
| Distinct words | 642 |
| Average verse | 29 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 61.1% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 74.4% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 19.4% |
| Difficulty rank | 26 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 11 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 基督 | 30 |
| 2 | 神 | 24 |
| 3 | 要 | 21 |
| 4 | 有 | 17 |
| 5 | 事 | 17 |
| 6 | 耶稣 | 14 |
| 7 | 主 | 14 |
| 8 | 叫 | 13 |
| 9 | 因 | 12 |
| 10 | 喜乐 | 12 |
| 11 | 就是 | 11 |
| 12 | 知道 | 11 |
| 13 | 人 | 10 |
| 14 | 福音 | 9 |
| 15 | 一同 | 9 |
| 16 | 并且 | 9 |
| 17 | 耶稣基督 | 8 |
| 18 | 靠 | 8 |
| 19 | 已经 | 8 |
| 20 | 众人 | 7 |
| 21 | 必 | 7 |
| 22 | 使 | 7 |
| 23 | 荣耀 | 7 |
| 24 | 死 | 7 |
| 25 | 去 | 7 |
| 26 | 归 | 6 |
| 27 | 地 | 6 |
| 28 | 一 | 6 |
| 29 | 弟兄们 | 6 |
| 30 | 受 | 6 |
| 31 | 若 | 6 |
| 32 | 心 | 6 |
| 33 | 给 | 5 |
| 34 | 心里 | 5 |
| 35 | 得 | 5 |
| 36 | 出于 | 5 |
| 37 | 并不 | 5 |
| 38 | 凡事 | 5 |
| 39 | 然而 | 5 |
| 40 | 同 | 5 |
| 41 | 那里 | 5 |
| 42 | 别人 | 5 |
| 43 | 当 | 5 |
| 44 | 打发 | 5 |
| 45 | 得着 | 5 |
| 46 | 求 | 5 |
| 47 | 说 | 5 |
| 48 | 想念 | 4 |
| 49 | 常 | 4 |
| 50 | 直到 | 4 |

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Philippians 4 | 63.7% | 23 | 688 |
| Philippians 3 | 61.4% | 21 | 647 |
| Philippians 2 | 61% | 30 | 793 |
| Philippians 1 | 58.9% | 30 | 842 |

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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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