# Chinese Bible Grammar by HSK Level

> The Chinese Union Version (和合本, simplified) uses these 32 grammar points across 31,021 verses; 30 carry a count checked by hand.

| HSK | Points | Marker occurrences |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 12 | 90,688 |
| 2 | 4 | 11,825 |
| 3 | 4 | 8,434 |
| 4 | 3 | 1,969 |
| 5 | 2 | 7,172 |
| 6 | 4 | 4,752 |
| 7 | 2 | 1,981 |
| beyond | 1 | 289 |

## Every point

- **的 — the attributive particle** — HSK 1, 39,808 clauses (approximate) (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/de-attributive)
- **了 — completion and change of state** — HSK 1, 6,730 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/le-aspect)
- **吗, 呢 and 吧 — turning a sentence into a question** — HSK 1, 3,104 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/question-particles)
- **不 and 没有 — the two negations** — HSK 1, 4,671 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/negation)
- **也 and 都 — adverbs go before the verb** — HSK 1, 4,580 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/ye-dou)
- **在 — saying where something happens** — HSK 1, 5,895 clauses (approximate) (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/zai-location)
- **很 + adjective — and what the Bible uses instead** — HSK 1, 32 clauses (approximate) (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/hen-adjectival)
- **比 — comparing two things** — HSK 1, 100 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/bi-comparison)
- **会 — the modal, and 会 the assembly** — HSK 1, 1 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/hui-modal)
- **要 — want, will, must** — HSK 1, 5,044 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/yao-modal)
- **正在 — the progressive, and what stands in for it** — HSK 1, 9 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/zhengzai-progressive)
- **地 — the adverbial particle the data cannot count** — HSK 1, 465 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/de-adverbial)
- **得 — the degree complement, in full** — HSK 2, 110 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/de-degree)
- **就 and 才 — sooner than expected, later than expected** — HSK 2, 4,166 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/jiu-cai)
- **又 and 再 — again, before and after the fact** — HSK 2, 2,482 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/you-zai)
- **能 and 可以 — can, and may** — HSK 2, 1,313 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/neng-keyi)
- **把 — the disposal construction** — HSK 3, 1,632 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/ba-disposal)
- **被 — the passive** — HSK 3, 1,397 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/bei-passive)
- **所…的 — that which is done** — HSK 3, 3,566 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/suo-nominaliser)
- **者 — the one who** — HSK 3, 252 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/zhe-nominaliser)
- **却 — but, without a but** — HSK 4, 577 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/que-contrastive)
- **无论…都 — whatever, whoever, however** — HSK 4, 83 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/wulun-whatever)
- **于是 — and so, then** — HSK 4, 667 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/yushi-sequence)
- **将 — the Bible's 把** — HSK 5, 2,166 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/jiang-disposal)
- **必 — shall, surely** — HSK 5, 3,128 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/bi-certainty)
- **若 — if, a hundred times over** — HSK 6, 1,344 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/ruo-conditional)
- **便 — the Bible's 就** — HSK 6, 466 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/bian-then)
- **与 — and, with** — HSK 6, no published count (2,572 marker occurrences) (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/yu-coordination)
- **免得 — so that it does not happen** — HSK 6, 192 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/miande-lest)
- **之 — the classical 的** — HSK 7, 1,804 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/zhi-attributive)
- **乃 — the classical 是** — HSK 7, no published count (131 marker occurrences) (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/nai-copula)
- **岂 — the question that expects no answer** — HSK beyond, 289 clauses (https://chinese-bible.com/en/grammar/qi-rhetorical)

Level rule: the highest HSK level of the point's own function words, as data/dict.json grades them; a word the HSK lists do not grade sends the point to 'beyond'.

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