Chinese Vocabulary by Frequency
Frequency lists based on the SUBTLEX-CH corpus (Cai & Brysbaert 2010), derived from ~33 million words of Chinese subtitle text. Coverage Statistics List Words Text Coverage Top 100 words 100 ~65% of everyday text Top 500 words 500 ~75% of conversation Top 1,000 characters 1,000 ~90% of common written text Top 3,000 words 3,000 ~90% of standard modern text Top 10,000 words 10,000 ~99%+ of modern text Key insight :...