Punya

Merit - concept considered fundamental to Buddhist ethics. Article “Punya” in French Wikipedia has 21.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.12 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Punya”, its content was written by 8 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 256 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 331 times in French Wikipedia and cited 5653 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #59124 in June 2014
• Global: #52669 in November 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #473188 in June 2016
• Global: #125529 in November 2024

There are 16 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) Merit (Buddhism)		100
2	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		45.0422
3	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		30.027
4	Arabic (ar) فضل (بوذية)		30.02
5	Hungarian (hu) Érdem (buddhizmus)		27.4536
6	Japanese (ja) 功徳		25.9845
7	Vietnamese (vi) Công đức		25.8807
8	Thai (th) บุญ		23.2326
9	Ukrainian (uk) Пунья		22.7653
10	Russian (ru) Пунья		22.6367

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		645 677
2	Thai (th) บุญ		340 747
3	Japanese (ja) 功徳		175 723
4	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		87 367
5	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		38 042
6	Hindi (hi) पुण्य		33 548
7	German (de) Tham bun		29 456
8	Russian (ru) Пунья		24 857
9	Swedish (sv) Merit		10 328
10	French (fr) Punya		7 101

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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 "Punya" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		3 143
2	Japanese (ja) 功徳		757
3	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		515
4	Thai (th) บุญ		428
5	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		149
6	Vietnamese (vi) Công đức		132
7	Russian (ru) Пунья		125
8	German (de) Tham bun		83
9	French (fr) Punya		61
10	Hindi (hi) पुण्य		59

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		115
2	German (de) Tham bun		28
3	Thai (th) บุญ		27
4	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		26
5	Hindi (hi) पुण्य		12
6	French (fr) Punya		8
7	Japanese (ja) 功徳		8
8	Russian (ru) Пунья		7
9	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		5
10	Swedish (sv) Merit		5

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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 "Punya" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		6
2	Arabic (ar) فضل (بوذية)		0
3	German (de) Tham bun		0
4	Estonian (et) Pälvimus		0
5	French (fr) Punya		0
6	Hebrew (he) מעלה (בודהיזם)		0
7	Hindi (hi) पुण्य		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Érdem (buddhizmus)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		0
10	Japanese (ja) 功徳		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 "Punya" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Merit (Buddhism)		2 418
2	Hungarian (hu) Érdem (buddhizmus)		619
3	Thai (th) บุญ		568
4	Indonesian (id) Kebajikan (Buddhisme)		513
5	Chinese (zh) 福德 (佛教)		456
6	French (fr) Punya		331
7	Japanese (ja) 功徳		242
8	Arabic (ar) فضل (بوذية)		153
9	Vietnamese (vi) Công đức		137
10	Ukrainian (uk) Пунья		100

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic فضل (بوذية)
de	German Tham bun
en	English Merit (Buddhism)
et	Estonian Pälvimus
fr	French Punya
he	Hebrew מעלה (בודהיזם)
hi	Hindi पुण्य
hu	Hungarian Érdem (buddhizmus)
id	Indonesian Kebajikan (Buddhisme)
ja	Japanese 功徳
ru	Russian Пунья
sv	Swedish Merit
th	Thai บุญ
uk	Ukrainian Пунья
vi	Vietnamese Công đức
zh	Chinese 福德 (佛教)

Best Rank

French: #473188 06.2016

Global: #125529 11.2024

Best Rank

French: #59124 06.2014

Global: #52669 11.2021

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