Book Frequency (1–100) — Character Lists

Book Frequency

Characters ranked by how often they appear in modern Chinese books (Jun Da corpus).

Showing 1–100 of 9,933 characters

#	Character	Pinyin	Gloss	Uses/M	Cum. Freq	Verified
1	的	de, dì, dí	[possessive]	40943.3	4.23%	✓
2	一	yī	one	15765.7	5.86%	✓
3	是	shì, shi	is	13516.5	7.26%	✓
4	不	bù, bu	no	11565.2	8.46%	✓
5	了瞭	le, liǎo, liào	finish	10999.9	9.59%	✓
6	在	zài	be at	10383.1	10.67%	✓
7	人	rén, ren	person	9653.5	11.66%	✓
8	有	yǒu	have	9209.1	12.62%	✓
9	我	wǒ	I; me	8733.9	13.52%	✓
10	他	tā	he	8246.7	14.37%	✓
11	这這	zhè	this	8020.7	15.2%	✓
12	个個	gè, ge, gě	[measure word]	6199.3	15.84%	✓
13	们們	men	[plural]	6045.6	16.47%	✓
14	中	zhōng, zhòng	central	5708.1	17.06%	✓
15	来來	lái	come	5578.5	17.63%	✓
16	上	shàng, shang	up	5527.4	18.2%	✓
17	大	dà, dài	big	5447.2	18.77%	✓
18	为為爲	wèi, wéi	do	5369.6	19.32%	✓
19	和	hé, huo, he	harmony	5221.9	19.86%	✓
20	国國	guó	nation	5092.1	20.39%	✓
21	地	de, dì	earth	5009.5	20.91%	✓
22	到	dào, dao	go to	4987.2	21.42%	✓
23	以	yǐ	by means of	4706.0	21.91%	✓
24	说說説	shuō	speak	4521.8	22.38%	✓
25	时時	shí	time	4307.6	22.82%	✓
26	要	yào, yāo	want	4191.2	23.25%	✓
27	就	jiù	just，then	3985.0	23.67%	✓
28	出齣	chū	go out	3903.1	24.07%	✓
29	会會	huì, kuài	to gather	3797.8	24.46%	✓
30	可	kě	able to	3736.9	24.85%	✓
31	也	yě	also	3670.5	25.23%	✓
32	你	nǐ	you	3644.4	25.61%	✓
33	对對	duì	correct	3636.3	25.98%	✓
34	生	shēng, sheng	life	3524.6	26.35%	✓
35	能	néng	to be able	3438.5	26.7%	✓
36	而	ér	and	3355.2	27.05%	✓
37	子	zi, zǐ	child	3310.7	27.39%	✓
38	那	nà	that	3299.9	27.73%	✓
39	得	de, dé, děi	obtain	3259.3	28.07%	✓
40	于於	yú	at	3258.5	28.41%	✓
41	着著	zhe, zháo, zhuó	[progress particle]	3236.8	28.74%	✓
42	下	xià, xia	under	3210.2	29.07%	✓
43	自	zì	(nose), self	3161.1	29.4%	✓
44	之	zhī	[attributive particle]	3147.2	29.72%	✓
45	年	nián	year	3110.5	30.05%	✓
46	过過	guò, guo	pass	3048.6	30.36%	✓
47	发發髮	fā, fa, fà	issue	2960.7	30.67%	✓
48	后後	hòu	queen, after	2949.6	30.97%	✓
49	作	zuò	make	2805.1	31.26%	✓
50	里裡裏	lǐ, li	village	2779.2	31.55%	✓
51	用	yòng, yong	use	2767.3	31.83%	✓
52	道	dào, dao	path	2763.2	32.12%	⚠
53	行	xíng, háng	walk	2748.5	32.4%	✓
54	所	suǒ	place	2702.9	32.68%	✓
55	然	rán, ran	yes	2640.9	32.96%	✓
56	家傢	jiā, jia	house	2634.5	33.23%	✓
57	种種	zhǒng, zhòng	seed	2601.2	33.5%	✓
58	事	shì, shi	matter	2579.6	33.76%	✓
59	成	chéng, cheng	completed	2578.8	34.03%	✓
60	方	fāng, fang	square	2546.5	34.29%	✓
61	多	duō	much	2489.3	34.55%	✓
62	经經	jīng, jing	pass through	2487.5	34.81%	✓
63	么幺麼麽	me	[question particle]	2470.1	35.06%	✓
64	去	qù	go away	2461.3	35.32%	✓
65	法	fǎ, fa	law	2412.4	35.57%	✓
66	学學	xué	learning	2399.2	35.82%	✓
67	如	rú	be like	2320.6	36.06%	✓
68	都	dōu, dū	metropolis	2271.6	36.29%	✓
69	同衕	tóng, tong, tòng	together	2261.5	36.52%	✓
70	现現	xiàn	appear	2242.6	36.76%	✓
71	当噹當	dāng, dàng, dang	to match	2218.4	36.99%	✓
72	没沒	méi, mò	not have	2212.6	37.21%	✓
73	动動	dòng	move	2205.8	37.44%	✓
74	面麵	miàn, mian	face	2197.3	37.67%	✓
75	起	qǐ	go up	2196.0	37.9%	✓
76	看	kàn, kān	look	2194.4	38.12%	✓
77	定	dìng	settle	2183.6	38.35%	✓
78	天	tiān, tian	sky	2169.9	38.57%	✓
79	分	fēn, fèn, fen	divide	2167.3	38.8%	✓
80	还還	hái, huán	still, return	2149.1	39.02%	✓
81	进進	jìn	advance	2130.0	39.24%	✓
82	好	hǎo, hāo, hào	good	2128.5	39.46%	✓
83	小	xiǎo	small	2123.9	39.68%	✓
84	部	bù	part	2083.0	39.9%	✓
85	其	qí	its, his, (3p possessive)	2082.8	40.11%	✓
86	些	xiē	a few	2069.9	40.32%	✓
87	主	zhǔ	master	2065.6	40.54%	✓
88	样樣	yàng	shape	2057.6	40.75%	✓
89	理	lǐ, li	reason	2057.3	40.96%	✓
90	心	xīn, xin	heart	2027.0	41.17%	✓
91	她	tā	she	2008.3	41.38%	✓
92	本	běn	root	2005.7	41.59%	✓
93	前	qián	in front	1971.2	41.79%	✓
94	开開	kāi	open	1948.3	41.99%	✓
95	但	dàn	only	1935.1	42.19%	✓
96	因	yīn	cause	1920.4	42.39%	✓
97	只隻戠衹	zhǐ, zhī	only	1912.4	42.59%	✓
98	从從	cóng, cōng	from	1911.9	42.79%	✓
99	想	xiǎng	think	1906.0	42.98%	✓
100	实實	shí, shi	real	1904.3	43.18%	✓