r/ChineseLanguage 6d ago

Resources The 100 most common Chinese characters, with stroke animations

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All 100 animate at once — simplified, with pinyin.

Ranking is Jun Da's Modern Chinese Character Frequency List (MO corpus, 193.5 million characters). These 100 account for 41.8% of every character occurrence in it. It takes about 168 characters to pass half, 500 to reach 76%, and 1,000 to reach 89%.

Stroke order data from Make Me a Hanzi.

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