Chinese characters

Quality:

Sinograms - logographic writing system with Han origin used in the Sinosphere for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and traditional Vietnamese languages. Article "Chinese characters" in English Wikipedia has 96.2 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 244 references and 49 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5799^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5635^th most popular in all topics.

The 3043^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6517^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9595^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 9461^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In July 2024 the article "Chinese characters" was edited by 12 authors in English Wikipedia (6517^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (9461^st place).

Since the creation of article "Chinese characters", its content was written by 1021 registered users of English Wikipedia (5799^th place) and edited by 4333 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3043^rd place).

The article is cited 4183 times in English Wikipedia (5701^st place) and cited 101997 times in all languages (1296^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #597 in February 2004
• Global: #316 in January 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2940 in September 2014
• Global: #2028 in August 2008

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Chinese characters		96.1815
2	Esperanto (eo) Ĉina skribo		94.5429
3	Hungarian (hu) Kínai írás		89.4563
4	Dutch (nl) Chinees schrift		72.9387
5	Tamil (ta) சீன எழுத்துமுறை		64.8126
6	German (de) Chinesische Schrift		61.3345
7	Russian (ru) Китайское письмо		58.9607
8	Chinese (zh) 汉字		58.5918
9	Polish (pl) Pismo chińskie		58.0291
10	Finnish (fi) Kiinan kirjoitusjärjestelmä		48.8966

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chinese characters		12 190 234
2	Japanese (ja) 漢字		2 909 136
3	German (de) Chinesische Schrift		2 858 549
4	Spanish (es) Caracteres chinos		2 750 787
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ Hán		2 348 367
6	Russian (ru) Китайское письмо		1 929 670
7	Chinese (zh) 汉字		1 684 970
8	Polish (pl) Pismo chińskie		1 322 862
9	French (fr) Caractères chinois		1 284 638
10	Portuguese (pt) Sinograma		682 780

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chinese characters		43 324
2	Russian (ru) Китайское письмо		9 981
3	Japanese (ja) 漢字		9 930
4	Chinese (zh) 汉字		9 173
5	Spanish (es) Caracteres chinos		8 032
6	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ Hán		7 982
7	German (de) Chinesische Schrift		7 565
8	French (fr) Caractères chinois		5 435
9	Korean (ko) 한자		4 861
10	Simple English (simple) Chinese characters		3 987

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chinese characters		1 021
2	Chinese (zh) 汉字		469
3	German (de) Chinesische Schrift		361
4	Japanese (ja) 漢字		220
5	French (fr) Caractères chinois		195
6	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ Hán		161
7	Russian (ru) Китайское письмо		155
8	Spanish (es) Caracteres chinos		144
9	Korean (ko) 한자		141
10	Polish (pl) Pismo chińskie		114

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chinese characters		12
2	Japanese (ja) 漢字		2
3	Simple English (simple) Chinese characters		2
4	Chinese (zh) 汉字		2
5	Azerbaijani (az) Çin yazısı		1
6	Czech (cs) Čínské znaky		1
7	Esperanto (eo) Ĉina skribo		1
8	Spanish (es) Caracteres chinos		1
9	Hebrew (he) כתב סיני		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ Hán		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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