How many characters are in Malachi in Chinese?

2,310 Chinese characters in total, written with 508 distinct characters, across 55 verses and 4 chapters.

What HSK level do I need to read Malachi?

58.1% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 70.3% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 22.1% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.

How long does Malachi take to read in Chinese?

About 9 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.

Is Malachi a good book to start with?

Not the gentlest: it ranks 44 of 66 by vocabulary. John and Matthew are easier by this measure.

Malachi in Chinese: 508 Characters

Answering: “how many characters in Malachi in Chinese”

Updated 2026-09-26 · plain text · JSON

Malachi closes the Old Testament with a series of disputations about worship, tithes and faithfulness.

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

Malachi in numbers

Measure	Value
Chapters	4
Verses	55
Chinese characters	2,310
Distinct characters	508
Word tokens	1,652
Distinct words	496
Average verse	42 characters
HSK 1-3 word tokens	58.1%
HSK 1-6 word tokens	70.3%
Not in HSK 1-9	22.1%
Difficulty rank	44 of 66 (1 = easiest)
Reading time	9 min at 260 chars/min
Testament	Old Testament

The words Malachi uses most

#	Word	Occurrences in this book
1	耶和华	48
2	说	41
3	必	29
4	人	24
5	万	24
6	军	24
7	神	13
8	事	11
9	使	11
10	名	11
11	献	10
12	供物	10
13	有	9
14	行	9
15	当	9
16	敬畏	7
17	因	7
18	能	7
19	如	7
20	恶	6

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

Words that occur in Malachi and nowhere else in the Bible

Words
烦琐

1 found, capped at 40 per book.

The easiest chapters of Malachi

Chapter	HSK 1-3	Verses	Characters
Malachi 2	60.7%	17	732
Malachi 1	59.8%	14	643
Malachi 3	55.8%	18	721
Malachi 4	51%	6	214

Read it

Malachi 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 Malachi in Chinese?: 2,310 Chinese characters in total, written with 508 distinct characters, across 55 verses and 4 chapters.
What HSK level do I need to read Malachi?: 58.1% of its word tokens are HSK 1-3 and 70.3% are within HSK 1-6; the remaining 22.1% are outside the HSK lists altogether, mostly names.
How long does Malachi take to read in Chinese?: About 9 minutes at 260 characters a minute — a fluent pace, so expect two to four times that while learning.
Is Malachi a good book to start with?: Not the gentlest: it ranks 44 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).