Shō

Shō - Japanese free reed musical instrument. Article “Shō” in Spanish Wikipedia has 11.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Shō”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 269 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 10 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 810 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #29108 in May 2006
• Global: #54717 in September 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #144766 in November 2019
• Global: #140266 in May 2010

There are 13 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) Shō (instrument)		34.245
2	Japanese (ja) 笙		21.6269
3	Ukrainian (uk) Сьо (музичний інструмент)		21.3782
4	Chinese (zh) 笙 (日本)		18.0758
5	Romanian (ro) Shō		15.5684
6	German (de) Shō (Instrument)		11.5371
7	Spanish (es) Shō		11.1521
8	Portuguese (pt) Shō (instrumento musical)		6.15
9	Italian (it) Sho (strumento musicale)		5.0053
10	French (fr) Shō		4.4649

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Shō" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 笙		698 746
2	English (en) Shō (instrument)		401 694
3	German (de) Shō (Instrument)		54 888
4	French (fr) Shō		48 442
5	Spanish (es) Shō		37 125
6	Italian (it) Sho (strumento musicale)		25 522
7	Polish (pl) Shō (instrument muzyczny)		17 500
8	Chinese (zh) 笙 (日本)		14 862
9	Dutch (nl) Sho (muziekinstrument)		9 585
10	Portuguese (pt) Shō (instrumento musical)		9 159

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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 "Shō" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 笙		2 714
2	English (en) Shō (instrument)		1 999
3	Chinese (zh) 笙 (日本)		172
4	French (fr) Shō		164
5	German (de) Shō (Instrument)		152
6	Italian (it) Sho (strumento musicale)		128
7	Spanish (es) Shō		86
8	Dutch (nl) Sho (muziekinstrument)		58
9	Polish (pl) Shō (instrument muzyczny)		44
10	Portuguese (pt) Shō (instrumento musical)		28

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shō (instrument)		68
2	Japanese (ja) 笙		57
3	German (de) Shō (Instrument)		32
4	Italian (it) Sho (strumento musicale)		29
5	French (fr) Shō		19
6	Spanish (es) Shō		18
7	Dutch (nl) Sho (muziekinstrument)		12
8	Catalan (ca) Shō		11
9	Polish (pl) Shō (instrument muzyczny)		11
10	Portuguese (pt) Shō (instrumento musical)		4

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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 "Shō" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Shō		0
2	German (de) Shō (Instrument)		0
3	English (en) Shō (instrument)		0
4	Spanish (es) Shō		0
5	French (fr) Shō		0
6	Italian (it) Sho (strumento musicale)		0
7	Japanese (ja) 笙		0
8	Dutch (nl) Sho (muziekinstrument)		0
9	Polish (pl) Shō (instrument muzyczny)		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Shō (instrumento musical)		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 "Shō" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 笙		317
2	English (en) Shō (instrument)		158
3	Ukrainian (uk) Сьо (музичний інструмент)		115
4	French (fr) Shō		101
5	German (de) Shō (Instrument)		38
6	Dutch (nl) Sho (muziekinstrument)		22
7	Italian (it) Sho (strumento musicale)		15
8	Chinese (zh) 笙 (日本)		14
9	Spanish (es) Shō		10
10	Polish (pl) Shō (instrument muzyczny)		7

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Shō
de	German Shō (Instrument)
en	English Shō (instrument)
es	Spanish Shō
fr	French Shō
it	Italian Sho (strumento musicale)
ja	Japanese 笙
nl	Dutch Sho (muziekinstrument)
pl	Polish Shō (instrument muzyczny)
pt	Portuguese Shō (instrumento musical)
ro	Romanian Shō
uk	Ukrainian Сьо (музичний інструмент)
zh	Chinese 笙 (日本)

Best Rank

Spanish: #144766 11.2019

Global: #140266 05.2010

Best Rank

Spanish: #29108 05.2006

Global: #54717 09.2005

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