Dao (Chinese sword)

Dao - single-edged Chinese sword primarily used for slashing and chopping. Article “Dao (Chinese sword)” in English Wikipedia has 56.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 21 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.27 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Dao (Chinese sword)”, its content was written by 208 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 517 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 477 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1419 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7072 in February 2003
• Global: #12364 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #67665 in February 2024
• Global: #84160 in March 2024

There are 22 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, 2025 (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	Chinese (zh) 刀 (中國)		63.8725
2	English (en) Dao (Chinese sword)		56.3829
3	Catalan (ca) Dao (sabre)		45.6034
4	Vietnamese (vi) Đao Trung Quốc		42.0774
5	Korean (ko) 도 (중국)		40.6796
6	Arabic (ar) داو (سيف صيني)		36.9164
7	German (de) Dao (Säbel)		36.1777
8	Dutch (nl) Dao (wapen)		26.3889
9	Portuguese (pt) Dao (sabre)		23.5006
10	French (fr) Dao (arme)		15.5052

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Dao (Chinese sword)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dao (Chinese sword)		773 851
2	Russian (ru) Дао (фальшион)		284 669
3	Japanese (ja) 中国刀		262 029
4	German (de) Dao (Säbel)		235 412
5	Spanish (es) Dao (sable)		225 492
6	Italian (it) Dao (arma)		155 119
7	Chinese (zh) 刀 (中國)		153 579
8	French (fr) Dao (arme)		66 538
9	Portuguese (pt) Dao (sabre)		62 270
10	Indonesian (id) Dao		31 323

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Dao (Chinese sword)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dao (Chinese sword)		13 827
2	Russian (ru) Дао (фальшион)		1 655
3	Chinese (zh) 刀 (中國)		1 236
4	Japanese (ja) 中国刀		842
5	Spanish (es) Dao (sable)		760
6	Vietnamese (vi) Đao Trung Quốc		553
7	Italian (it) Dao (arma)		381
8	German (de) Dao (Säbel)		302
9	French (fr) Dao (arme)		235
10	Portuguese (pt) Dao (sabre)		175

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

Language versions of the article "Dao (Chinese sword)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dao (Chinese sword)		208
2	Chinese (zh) 刀 (中國)		61
3	Italian (it) Dao (arma)		42
4	German (de) Dao (Säbel)		33
5	Spanish (es) Dao (sable)		26
6	Portuguese (pt) Dao (sabre)		20
7	Russian (ru) Дао (фальшион)		19
8	Japanese (ja) 中国刀		18
9	French (fr) Dao (arme)		13
10	Norwegian (no) Dao (sverd)		13

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

Language versions of the article "Dao (Chinese sword)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Dao (sabre)		1
2	Arabic (ar) داو (سيف صيني)		0
3	German (de) Dao (Säbel)		0
4	English (en) Dao (Chinese sword)		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Dao (glavo)		0
6	Spanish (es) Dao (sable)		0
7	Finnish (fi) Dao		0
8	French (fr) Dao (arme)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Dao		0
10	Italian (it) Dao (arma)		0

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

Language versions of the article "Dao (Chinese sword)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Dao (Chinese sword)		477
2	French (fr) Dao (arme)		272
3	Ukrainian (uk) Дао (меч)		130
4	Italian (it) Dao (arma)		116
5	Korean (ko) 도 (중국)		91
6	Chinese (zh) 刀 (中國)		86
7	Russian (ru) Дао (фальшион)		56
8	Spanish (es) Dao (sable)		37
9	Portuguese (pt) Dao (sabre)		32
10	German (de) Dao (Säbel)		28

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic داو (سيف صيني)
ca	Catalan Dao (sabre)
de	German Dao (Säbel)
en	English Dao (Chinese sword)
eo	Esperanto Dao (glavo)
es	Spanish Dao (sable)
fi	Finnish Dao
fr	French Dao (arme)
id	Indonesian Dao
it	Italian Dao (arma)
ja	Japanese 中国刀
ko	Korean 도 (중국)
lt	Lithuanian Dao (ginklas)
nl	Dutch Dao (wapen)
no	Norwegian Dao (sverd)
pt	Portuguese Dao (sabre)
ru	Russian Дао (фальшион)
sv	Swedish Dao (svärd)
tr	Turkish Dao (kılıç)
uk	Ukrainian Дао (меч)
vi	Vietnamese Đao Trung Quốc
zh	Chinese 刀 (中國)

Best Rank

English: #67665 02.2024

Global: #84160 03.2024

Best Rank

English: #7072 02.2003

Global: #12364 02.2003

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