Handkerchief

Quality:

Handkerchief - piece of cloth for personal use. Article “Handkerchief” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Handkerchief”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1329 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1525 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1594 in November 2020
• Global: #6509 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2613 in November 2016
• Global: #41232 in January 2009

There are 41 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, 2026 (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	German (de) Taschentuch		67.3569
2	Turkish (tr) Mendil		64.8163
3	French (fr) Mouchoir		64.5711
4	Slovenian (sl) Robec		57.011
5	Hebrew (he) מטפחת		44.5254
6	English (en) Handkerchief		42.6955
7	Spanish (es) Pañuelo		40.8827
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Lommetørkle		40.0161
9	Esperanto (eo) Naztuko		37.2673
10	Swedish (sv) Näsduk		33.0871

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Handkerchief		2 756 791
2	German (de) Taschentuch		417 664
3	French (fr) Mouchoir		379 402
4	Spanish (es) Pañuelo		366 692
5	Japanese (ja) ハンカチ		301 816
6	Polish (pl) Chusteczka do nosa		163 610
7	Arabic (ar) منديل		151 512
8	Italian (it) Fazzoletto		146 834
9	Russian (ru) Носовой платок		141 062
10	Chinese (zh) 手絹		54 987

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Handkerchief		5 656
2	German (de) Taschentuch		625
3	Japanese (ja) ハンカチ		523
4	French (fr) Mouchoir		493
5	Spanish (es) Pañuelo		312
6	Russian (ru) Носовой платок		276
7	Chinese (zh) 手絹		190
8	Italian (it) Fazzoletto		151
9	Polish (pl) Chusteczka do nosa		130
10	Simple English (simple) Handkerchief		114

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Handkerchief		255
2	German (de) Taschentuch		232
3	French (fr) Mouchoir		212
4	Italian (it) Fazzoletto		72
5	Dutch (nl) Zakdoek		53
6	Spanish (es) Pañuelo		52
7	Japanese (ja) ハンカチ		49
8	Russian (ru) Носовой платок		40
9	Hebrew (he) מטפחת		35
10	Finnish (fi) Nenäliina		29

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) Handkerchief		1
2	Polish (pl) Chusteczka do nosa		1
3	Tamil (ta) கைக்குட்டை		1
4	Arabic (ar) منديل		0
5	Belarusian (be) Насавая хустачка		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Носна кърпа		0
7	Catalan (ca) Mocador		0
8	Czech (cs) Kapesník		0
9	Danish (da) Lommetørklæde		0
10	German (de) Taschentuch		0

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

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