How many characters are in 2 Corinthians in Chinese?

8,057 Chinese characters in total, written with 827 distinct characters, across 257 verses and 13 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read 2 Corinthians?

64.4% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 76.4% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 17% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does 2 Corinthians take to read in Chinese?

About 31 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is 2 Corinthians a good book to start with?

Yes — it ranks 10 of 66 books from easiest to hardest by vocabulary, so it is among the gentler starts.

2 Corinthians in Chinese: 827 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in 2 Corinthians in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-26 · plain text · JSON

2 Corinthians is Paul's most personal letter, defending his ministry after a painful conflict with the church.

Every figure below is counted from the 和合本 (Chinese Union Version), simplified script text of 2 Corinthians on this site: characters from the simplified text, words from its segmentation, HSK levels from the word lists. The difficulty rank compares this book with the other 65 by the share of word tokens at HSK 1-3.

2 Corinthians in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	13
Verses	257
Chinese characters	8,057
Distinct characters	827
Word tokens	5,533
Distinct words	1,155
Average verse	31 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	64.4%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	76.4%
Not in HSK 1-9	17%
Difficulty rank	10 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	31 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	New Testament

The words 2 Corinthians uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	神	80
2	人	73
3	叫	59
4	要	48
5	基督	45
6	有	41
7	因	35
8	事	33
9	主	32
10	说	31
11	给	25
12	去	23
13	那里	21
14	忧愁	19
15	作	18
16	安慰	18
17	就是	17
18	受	17
19	乃是	17
20	必	15

Function words excluded. Each word has its own page with pinyin, stroke order and the verses it appears in.

Words that occur in 2 Corinthians and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
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5 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of 2 Corinthians

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
2 Corinthians 12	69.4%	21	793
2 Corinthians 2	69.2%	17	499
2 Corinthians 8	69%	24	728
2 Corinthians 1	66.2%	24	773
2 Corinthians 10	66%	18	592
2 Corinthians 9	64%	15	468
2 Corinthians 11	63.9%	33	982
2 Corinthians 13	62.5%	14	483

Read it

2 Corinthians in the parallel reader — Chinese, pinyin and your own language side by side. Or take its vocabulary deck first, ordered by how often each word occurs in this book.

Questions

How many characters are in 2 Corinthians in Chinese?: 8,057 Chinese characters in total, written with 827 distinct characters, across 257 verses and 13 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read 2 Corinthians?: 64.4% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 76.4% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 17% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does 2 Corinthians take to read in Chinese?: About 31 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is 2 Corinthians a good book to start with?: Yes — it ranks 10 of 66 books from easiest to hardest by vocabulary, so it is among the gentler starts.

Related reference pages

Take it further

97 ready-made vocabulary decks — by HSK level, by book or by topic, exportable to Anki, Pleco or Quizlet.
Printable 田字格 worksheets — passages with pinyin, meanings and tracing rows.
The parallel reader — Chinese, pinyin and your own language side by side, every word tappable.
The dataset behind these numbers — plain JSON, free to reuse with attribution.

How these numbers were produced

Text: 和合本 (Chinese Union Version), simplified script — public domain — 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,021 verses.
Words: forward maximum matching against CC-CEDICT (this site's own segmentation). A different segmenter gives slightly different word counts; character counts are unaffected.
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 about a fluent adult reader, not a measurement.
Computed: 2026-09-26, from the text on this site.

These are counts anyone can reproduce from the published dataset. They are not a peer-reviewed linguistic study, and the difficulty rankings are one stated formula rather than a validated readability score.

Definitions: CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). If you share this file onward, keep this notice and share alike. Character data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License / LGPL).