How many characters are in Acts in Chinese?

28,933 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,377 distinct characters, across 1,001 verses and 28 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Acts?

63.9% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 72.7% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.7% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Acts take to read in Chinese?

About 111 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Acts a good book to start with?

Yes — it ranks 13 of 66 books from easiest to hardest by vocabulary, so it is among the gentler starts.

Acts in Chinese: 1,377 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Acts in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-26 · plain text · JSON

Acts continues Luke's account with the spread of the early church from Jerusalem outward, following Peter and then Paul to Rome.

Every figure below is counted from the 和合本 (Chinese Union Version), simplified script text of Acts 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.

Acts in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	28
Verses	1,001
Chinese characters	28,933
Distinct characters	1,377
Word tokens	20,003
Distinct words	2,643
Average verse	29 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	63.9%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	72.7%
Not in HSK 1-9	21.7%
Difficulty rank	13 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	111 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	New Testament

The words Acts uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	说	337
2	人	332
3	保罗	183
4	神	179
5	有	177
6	去	173
7	要	130
8	主	120
9	来	114
10	事	97
11	叫	95
12	那里	92
13	犹太人	75
14	众人	74
15	彼得	70
16	住	68
17	道	68
18	耶稣	63
19	行	61
20	耶路撒冷	60

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

Words that occur in Acts and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
大马巴撒巴硝皮匠凡俗塞浦路斯大数亚迦布克劳第帕弗开船旁非利亚别加彼西底兄台吕高尼特庇宙斯跳进勒死诉说弗吕家喇吕底亚

40 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Acts

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Acts 22	71.2%	30	917
Acts 28	67.5%	30	919
Acts 10	66.5%	48	1,294
Acts 25	66.2%	27	914
Acts 1	65.8%	25	852
Acts 16	65%	40	1,148
Acts 14	64.9%	28	751
Acts 24	64.9%	26	755

Read it

Acts 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 Acts in Chinese?: 28,933 Chinese characters in total, written with 1,377 distinct characters, across 1,001 verses and 28 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Acts?: 63.9% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 72.7% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.7% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Acts take to read in Chinese?: About 111 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Acts a good book to start with?: Yes — it ranks 13 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).