# Revelation in Chinese — vocabulary profile

> Revelation uses 1,068 distinct Chinese characters and 1,555 distinct words across 13,487 characters and 405 verses of the Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified). 65.1% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3, ranking it 7th of 66 books from easiest to hardest by that measure.

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Chapters | 22 |
| Verses | 405 |
| Chinese characters | 13,487 |
| Distinct characters | 1,068 |
| Word tokens | 9,951 |
| Distinct words | 1,555 |
| Average verse | 33 characters |
| HSK 1-3 word tokens | 65.1% |
| HSK 1-6 word tokens | 75% |
| Not in HSK 1-9 | 19.4% |
| Difficulty rank | 7 of 66 (1 = easiest) |
| Reading time | 52 min at 260 chars/min |
| Testament | New Testament |

## Most frequent words in this book

| # | Word | Occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 有 | 164 |
| 2 | 说 | 113 |
| 3 | 神 | 102 |
| 4 | 要 | 99 |
| 5 | 人 | 78 |
| 6 | 一 | 69 |
| 7 | 位 | 65 |
| 8 | 天使 | 64 |
| 9 | 七 | 62 |
| 10 | 看见 | 56 |
| 11 | 来 | 51 |
| 12 | 兽 | 50 |
| 13 | 众 | 48 |
| 14 | 叫 | 40 |
| 15 | 个 | 40 |
| 16 | 宝座 | 40 |
| 17 | 就是 | 38 |
| 18 | 听见 | 37 |
| 19 | 给 | 35 |
| 20 | 必 | 35 |
| 21 | 像 | 33 |
| 22 | 能 | 33 |
| 23 | 四 | 33 |
| 24 | 羔羊 | 32 |
| 25 | 作 | 31 |
| 26 | 地上 | 30 |
| 27 | 天上 | 30 |
| 28 | 第 | 30 |
| 29 | 拿 | 29 |
| 30 | 因 | 28 |
| 31 | 声音 | 28 |
| 32 | 出来 | 27 |
| 33 | 好像 | 27 |
| 34 | 地 | 26 |
| 35 | 城 | 26 |
| 36 | 坐 | 26 |
| 37 | 主 | 25 |
| 38 | 受 | 25 |
| 39 | 大 | 24 |
| 40 | 赐给 | 23 |
| 41 | 在地 | 23 |
| 42 | 凡 | 22 |
| 43 | 死 | 22 |
| 44 | 大声 | 22 |
| 45 | 面前 | 22 |
| 46 | 行 | 22 |
| 47 | 用 | 21 |
| 48 | 海 | 21 |
| 49 | 王 | 21 |
| 50 | 教会 | 20 |

## Words found in Revelation and nowhere else

昔 阿拉 戛 狄 七星 利剑 龙口 死伤 大雷 熟透 雹子 遍体 巢穴 哈利路亚 火湖 一会 删去

## Chapters, easiest first

| Chapter | HSK 1-3 | Verses | Characters |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Revelation 3 | 70.5% | 22 | 795 |
| Revelation 7 | 68.8% | 17 | 542 |
| Revelation 14 | 68.1% | 20 | 735 |
| Revelation 17 | 67.1% | 18 | 624 |
| Revelation 10 | 66.8% | 11 | 352 |
| Revelation 22 | 66.4% | 21 | 648 |
| Revelation 6 | 66.3% | 17 | 568 |
| Revelation 4 | 65.6% | 11 | 389 |
| Revelation 13 | 65.3% | 18 | 549 |
| Revelation 2 | 65.2% | 29 | 1,012 |
| Revelation 16 | 65.2% | 21 | 619 |
| Revelation 1 | 65% | 20 | 664 |
| Revelation 5 | 64.6% | 14 | 445 |
| Revelation 21 | 64.4% | 27 | 837 |
| Revelation 12 | 64.4% | 18 | 557 |
| Revelation 11 | 64.3% | 19 | 672 |
| Revelation 19 | 63.5% | 21 | 695 |
| Revelation 15 | 63.4% | 8 | 298 |
| Revelation 9 | 62.7% | 21 | 605 |
| Revelation 20 | 62.5% | 15 | 565 |
| Revelation 8 | 62.2% | 13 | 414 |
| Revelation 18 | 59.6% | 24 | 902 |

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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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