Hand (unit)

Hand - unit of length. Article “Hand (unit)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Hand (unit)”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 259 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1367 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #6950 in December 2023
• Global: #34357 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #11935 in May 2019
• Global: #124605 in September 2011

There are 18 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) Hand (unit)		53.4307
2	Armenian (hy) Ձեռք (միավոր)		36.2406
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Handsbreidd		32.4105
4	Malay (ms) Tangan (ukuran)		29.1664
5	Japanese (ja) ハンド (単位)		23.5467
6	Kazakh (kk) Хэнд		21.0082
7	German (de) Handbreit		19.9319
8	Chinese (zh) 掌宽		19.9221
9	Russian (ru) Хэнд (единица длины)		19.792
10	Simple English (simple) Hand (unit)		19.014

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Hand (unit)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hand (unit)		1 615 722
2	German (de) Handbreit		142 216
3	Polish (pl) Dłoń (miara)		48 433
4	French (fr) Main (unité)		35 280
5	Russian (ru) Хэнд (единица длины)		21 929
6	Japanese (ja) ハンド (単位)		20 316
7	Swedish (sv) Tvärhand		19 907
8	Uzbek (uz) Hend		8 710
9	Simple English (simple) Hand (unit)		6 448
10	Italian (it) Mano (unità di misura)		5 832

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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 "Hand (unit)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hand (unit)		5 571
2	German (de) Handbreit		288
3	Italian (it) Mano (unità di misura)		196
4	French (fr) Main (unité)		127
5	Japanese (ja) ハンド (単位)		107
6	Polish (pl) Dłoń (miara)		81
7	Chinese (zh) 掌宽		76
8	Russian (ru) Хэнд (единица длины)		57
9	Swedish (sv) Tvärhand		56
10	Simple English (simple) Hand (unit)		46

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hand (unit)		126
2	German (de) Handbreit		36
3	French (fr) Main (unité)		23
4	Polish (pl) Dłoń (miara)		14
5	Russian (ru) Хэнд (единица длины)		12
6	Swedish (sv) Tvärhand		9
7	Ukrainian (uk) Хенд (одиниця довжини)		6
8	Basque (eu) Arra		4
9	Italian (it) Mano (unità di misura)		4
10	Japanese (ja) ハンド (単位)		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 "Hand (unit)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Handbreit		0
2	English (en) Hand (unit)		0
3	Basque (eu) Arra		0
4	Persian (fa) دست (یکا)		0
5	French (fr) Main (unité)		0
6	Armenian (hy) Ձեռք (միավոր)		0
7	Italian (it) Mano (unità di misura)		0
8	Japanese (ja) ハンド (単位)		0
9	Kazakh (kk) Хэнд		0
10	Malay (ms) Tangan (ukuran)		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 "Hand (unit)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hand (unit)		830
2	Polish (pl) Dłoń (miara)		92
3	Japanese (ja) ハンド (単位)		82
4	Basque (eu) Arra		74
5	Ukrainian (uk) Хенд (одиниця довжини)		60
6	Russian (ru) Хэнд (единица длины)		50
7	Swedish (sv) Tvärhand		41
8	German (de) Handbreit		39
9	French (fr) Main (unité)		34
10	Uzbek (uz) Hend		17

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#	Language	Value
de	German Handbreit
en	English Hand (unit)
eu	Basque Arra
fa	Persian دست (یکا)
fr	French Main (unité)
hy	Armenian Ձեռք (միավոր)
it	Italian Mano (unità di misura)
ja	Japanese ハンド (単位)
kk	Kazakh Хэнд
ms	Malay Tangan (ukuran)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Handsbreidd
pl	Polish Dłoń (miara)
ru	Russian Хэнд (единица длины)
simple	Simple English Hand (unit)
sv	Swedish Tvärhand
uk	Ukrainian Хенд (одиниця довжини)
uz	Uzbek Hend
zh	Chinese 掌宽

Best Rank

Simple English: #11935 05.2019

Global: #124605 09.2011

Best Rank

Simple English: #6950 12.2023

Global: #34357 05.2003

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