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The 6th column roughly indicates how frequently the character is used in Chinese, using the North China Union Language School's arrangement of the 5,000 character flashcards in ten groups of 500 each, lettered from A to K, with A for the 500 most commonly used characters and K for the 500 least commonly used.
John DeFrancis, in the introduction to his Advanced Chinese Reader, estimates that a typical Chinese college graduate recognizes 4,000 to 5,000 characters, and 40,000 to 60,000 words. [2] Jerry Norman , in Chinese , places the number of characters somewhat lower, at 3,000 to 4,000. [ 3 ]
The Thousand Character Classic (Chinese: 千字文; pinyin: Qiānzì wén), also known as the Thousand Character Text, is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four ...
This table integrates the First Batch of Simplified Characters (1955), the Complete List of Simplified Characters (initially published in 1964, last revised in 1986), and the List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese (1988), while also refining and improving it based on the current usage of characters in mainland China. After 8 years ...
Almost all (at least 99.99%) of Chinese words can be written with less than 5000 characters. All words can, except for a few obscure ones. All words can, except for a few obscure ones. Only, the Chinese script doesn't mark words by spaces between words.
where Di is the distribution rate of character or word i, ti is the number of texts in which the character or word appears, and T is the total number of texts in the corpus. Application rate is a combination of distribution rate and frequency. A newer calculation formula [11] is: Ui=(Fi*Di)/Σ(j=1 to n)(Fj*Dj)
The List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese (simplified Chinese: 现代汉语通用字表; traditional Chinese: 現代漢語通用字表; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ Tōngyòngzì Biǎo) is a list of 7,000 commonly used Chinese characters in Chinese. It was created in 1988 in the People's Republic of China. [1]
Single-character words are arranged by character sorting directly, and multi-character words can be sorted character by character in a similar way. [3] In the following sections, there is a general introduction to the orders and sorting methods currently in use, focused on those which are more popular and effective.