Kūkai

Quality:

Kūkai - Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835). This person is the 8472^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Kūkai” in English Wikipedia has 65.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 37 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.47 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Japanese.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8472^nd most popular in people.

In June 2025 the article “Kūkai” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kūkai”, its content was written by 174 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 990 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Kūkai is on the 8472^nd place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 643 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5166 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5422 in September 2003
• Global: #5890 in September 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #142847 in June 2025
• Global: #6056 in February 2018

There are 34 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	English (en) Kūkai		65.8607
2	Japanese (ja) 空海		60.0694
3	German (de) Kūkai		53.4756
4	Catalan (ca) Kūkai		48.3587
5	Slovenian (sl) Kukai		48.1101
6	Chinese (zh) 空海		37.6106
7	Spanish (es) Kūkai		35.9068
8	Lithuanian (lt) Kūkajis		35.3042
9	French (fr) Kūkai		31.2974
10	Swedish (sv) Kūkai		30.375

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 空海		9 275 158
2	English (en) Kūkai		1 050 102
3	Chinese (zh) 空海		512 993
4	French (fr) Kūkai		133 267
5	Russian (ru) Кукай		131 806
6	Spanish (es) Kūkai		102 267
7	German (de) Kūkai		71 306
8	Polish (pl) Kūkai		54 883
9	Italian (it) Kūkai		48 296
10	Portuguese (pt) Kukai		30 172

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 空海		29 598
2	English (en) Kūkai		7 986
3	Chinese (zh) 空海		4 980
4	Russian (ru) Кукай		661
5	French (fr) Kūkai		543
6	Spanish (es) Kūkai		525
7	German (de) Kūkai		385
8	Italian (it) Kūkai		343
9	Vietnamese (vi) Không Hải		161
10	Portuguese (pt) Kukai		142

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 空海		242
2	English (en) Kūkai		174
3	German (de) Kūkai		91
4	French (fr) Kūkai		82
5	Chinese (zh) 空海		66
6	Italian (it) Kūkai		46
7	Russian (ru) Кукай		39
8	Vietnamese (vi) Không Hải		31
9	Spanish (es) Kūkai		29
10	Polish (pl) Kūkai		24

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) Kūkai		2
2	Indonesian (id) Kūkai		1
3	Italian (it) Kūkai		1
4	Japanese (ja) 空海		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Kukai		1
6	Turkish (tr) Kūkai		1
7	Arabic (ar) كوكاي		0
8	Belarusian (be) Кукай		0
9	Catalan (ca) Kūkai		0
10	Czech (cs) Kúkai		0

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

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