How many characters are in Galatians in Chinese?

4,182 Chinese characters in total, written with 605 distinct characters, across 149 verses and 6 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Galatians?

61.8% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 72.6% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.6% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Galatians take to read in Chinese?

About 16 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Galatians a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 22 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Galatians in Chinese: 605 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Galatians in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-26 · plain text · JSON

Galatians is a sharp argument that Gentile believers are not bound to the law of Moses — the letter at the centre of later debates about faith and works.

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

Galatians in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	6
Verses	149
Chinese characters	4,182
Distinct characters	605
Word tokens	2,855
Distinct words	746
Average verse	28 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	61.8%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	72.6%
Not in HSK 1-9	21.6%
Difficulty rank	22 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	16 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	New Testament

The words Galatians uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	人	43
2	神	33
3	律法	33
4	基督	31
5	因	26
6	受	21
7	说	19
8	信	19
9	要	18
10	行	18
11	叫	17
12	若	17
13	给	16
14	割礼	16
15	福音	15
16	圣灵	15
17	去	13
18	儿子	13
19	义	13
20	作	12

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

Words that occur in Galatians and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
讨人

1 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Galatians

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Galatians 4	67.1%	31	878
Galatians 1	63.6%	24	627
Galatians 3	61.8%	29	873
Galatians 6	61.2%	18	466
Galatians 2	59.1%	21	738
Galatians 5	56.1%	26	600

Read it

Galatians 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 Galatians in Chinese?: 4,182 Chinese characters in total, written with 605 distinct characters, across 149 verses and 6 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Galatians?: 61.8% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 72.6% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 21.6% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Galatians take to read in Chinese?: About 16 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Galatians a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 22 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

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).