Chinese language

Quality:

Chinese - language group of the Sinitic languages. Article “Chinese language” in English Wikipedia has 85.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 100 references and 28 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4018^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 1087^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2887^th most popular in all topics.

The 816^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3249^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7486^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4004^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Chinese language” was edited by 13 authors in English Wikipedia (3249^th place) and written by 32 authors in all languages (4004^th place).

Since the creation of article “Chinese language”, its content was written by 1916 registered users of English Wikipedia (1087^th place) and edited by 6949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (816^th place).

The article is cited 43514 times in English Wikipedia (268^th place) and cited 256712 times in all languages (427^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #89 in December 2001
• Global: #65 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #976 in January 2011
• Global: #1098 in August 2008

There are 55 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 July 1, 2026 (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	Malay (ms) Bahasa Cina		100
2	English (en) Chinese language		85.9001
3	Russian (ru) Китайский язык		84.3951
4	German (de) Chinesische Sprachen		69.8939
5	Basque (eu) Txinera		63.9141
6	Chinese (zh) 汉语		63.2931
7	Esperanto (eo) Ĉina lingvaro		62.2097
8	Hungarian (hu) Kínai nyelv		59.1235
9	Portuguese (pt) Língua chinesa		54.213
10	Greek (el) Κινεζική γλώσσα		53.6169

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Chinese language		23 941 145
2	Chinese (zh) 汉语		3 761 255
3	Russian (ru) Китайский язык		3 674 554
4	Japanese (ja) 中国語		3 614 610
5	Spanish (es) Idioma chino		3 465 056
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Trung Quốc		2 237 818
7	German (de) Chinesische Sprachen		1 687 325
8	Arabic (ar) اللغة الصينية		1 447 516
9	French (fr) Langues chinoises		1 338 748
10	Portuguese (pt) Língua chinesa		1 205 934

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 language		53 521
2	Chinese (zh) 汉语		10 359
3	Russian (ru) Китайский язык		9 955
4	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Trung Quốc		8 372
5	Japanese (ja) 中国語		8 215
6	Spanish (es) Idioma chino		3 732
7	German (de) Chinesische Sprachen		3 248
8	French (fr) Langues chinoises		3 245
9	Persian (fa) زبان چینی		2 066
10	Polish (pl) Język chiński		2 019

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chinese language		1 916
2	Chinese (zh) 汉语		640
3	German (de) Chinesische Sprachen		360
4	Spanish (es) Idioma chino		287
5	French (fr) Langues chinoises		282
6	Russian (ru) Китайский язык		257
7	Japanese (ja) 中国語		243
8	Italian (it) Lingua cinese		238
9	Dutch (nl) Chinese talen		185
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Trung Quốc		141

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 language		13
2	Chinese (zh) 汉语		5
3	Arabic (ar) اللغة الصينية		2
4	Malay (ms) Bahasa Cina		2
5	Russian (ru) Китайский язык		2
6	Serbian (sr) Кинески језик		2
7	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Trung Quốc		2
8	Greek (el) Κινεζική γλώσσα		1
9	Esperanto (eo) Ĉina lingvaro		1
10	Basque (eu) Txinera		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information