Welcome

This website provides character frequency lists generated from a large corpus of Chinese texts collected from online sources. It also provides bigram frequency lists as well as individual mutual information scores generated from two sub-corpra.

This website has been updated in May 2004.
Click here for the old version.  

• Introduction: An quick overview of what is available at this web site;
• Statistics: Frequency lists of individual characters, bigrams with mutual information scores and phoneme/syllable distribution;
• Search: Query for individual character information and bigram statistics with mutual information scores.
• Documentation: Technical report about corpus data collection, computing procedure and tools;
• Chinese computing FAQ: Tutorials on how to display and edit Chinese on Windows and Mac platforms.Chinese character segmenting scripts. Notes on Chinese encoding standards;
• Other online resources: Annotated links to websites which provide information on statistical concepts and methods and Chinese encoding standards, etc.;
• Comments and suggestions: Please use this form to send me your comments;
• What's new: Latest updates to this site;
• Copyright notice: Please read it if you are a first-time visitor.
• Credits
• Old version: The previous version of character and bigram frequency lists.
  
  
  

Copyright. 1998-2025. Jun Da. jda@mtsu.edu. Page last updated: 2010-09-16