Japanese writing system

Japanese writing system - various writing systems used Japanese, using or mixing Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji characters, inherited or derived from Chinese ideographic characters. Article “Japanese writing system” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Japanese writing system”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1717 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 22381 times in all languages (7668^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1828 in April 2026
• Global: #3443 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #22753 in November 2024
• Global: #10580 in July 2021

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	French (fr) Écritures du japonais		59.8723
2	Polish (pl) Pismo japońskie		59.0304
3	Chinese (zh) 日語書寫系統		53.9908
4	German (de) Japanische Schrift		48.476
5	English (en) Japanese writing system		45.7714
6	Japanese (ja) 日本語の表記体系		41.8093
7	Greek (el) Ιαπωνική γραφή		39.7039
8	Korean (ko) 일본어 표기 체계		38.0541
9	Romanian (ro) Scrierea japoneză		33.7124
10	Russian (ru) Японская письменность		31.3133

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Japanese writing system" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese writing system		7 113 041
2	German (de) Japanische Schrift		2 936 217
3	Spanish (es) Escritura japonesa		1 859 798
4	Russian (ru) Японская письменность		1 126 926
5	French (fr) Écritures du japonais		951 959
6	Polish (pl) Pismo japońskie		738 387
7	Chinese (zh) 日語書寫系統		651 285
8	Italian (it) Sistema di scrittura giapponese		556 874
9	Japanese (ja) 日本語の表記体系		520 562
10	Portuguese (pt) Escrita japonesa		468 947

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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 "Japanese writing system" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese writing system		19 492
2	German (de) Japanische Schrift		7 492
3	Russian (ru) Японская письменность		2 809
4	Spanish (es) Escritura japonesa		2 593
5	French (fr) Écritures du japonais		2 325
6	Portuguese (pt) Escrita japonesa		1 712
7	Italian (it) Sistema di scrittura giapponese		1 543
8	Polish (pl) Pismo japońskie		1 088
9	Chinese (zh) 日語書寫系統		993
10	Japanese (ja) 日本語の表記体系		912

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese writing system		418
2	German (de) Japanische Schrift		339
3	French (fr) Écritures du japonais		148
4	Japanese (ja) 日本語の表記体系		94
5	Russian (ru) Японская письменность		81
6	Spanish (es) Escritura japonesa		67
7	Polish (pl) Pismo japońskie		63
8	Chinese (zh) 日語書寫系統		61
9	Dutch (nl) Japans schrift		48
10	Italian (it) Sistema di scrittura giapponese		32

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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 "Japanese writing system" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese writing system		6
2	Spanish (es) Escritura japonesa		2
3	Chinese (zh) 日語書寫系統		2
4	Catalan (ca) Escriptura japonesa		1
5	French (fr) Écritures du japonais		1
6	Japanese (ja) 日本語の表記体系		1
7	Arabic (ar) نظام كتابة ياباني		0
8	Belarusian (be) Японская пісьменнасць		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Японска писменост		0
10	German (de) Japanische Schrift		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 "Japanese writing system" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Japanische Schrift		19 228
2	English (en) Japanese writing system		618
3	Chinese (zh) 日語書寫系統		290
4	Georgian (ka) იაპონური დამწერლობა		228
5	Japanese (ja) 日本語の表記体系		201
6	French (fr) Écritures du japonais		188
7	Spanish (es) Escritura japonesa		160
8	Russian (ru) Японская письменность		156
9	Dutch (nl) Japans schrift		149
10	Arabic (ar) نظام كتابة ياباني		139

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظام كتابة ياباني
be	Belarusian Японская пісьменнасць
bg	Bulgarian Японска писменост
ca	Catalan Escriptura japonesa
de	German Japanische Schrift
el	Greek Ιαπωνική γραφή
en	English Japanese writing system
eo	Esperanto Japanaj skribsistemoj
es	Spanish Escritura japonesa
fa	Persian سامانه نگارش زبان ژاپنی
fi	Finnish Japanin kirjoitusjärjestelmä
fr	French Écritures du japonais
gl	Galician Escrita xaponesa
hi	Hindi जापानी लेखन पद्धति
hy	Armenian Ճապոնական գիր
id	Indonesian Sistem penulisan bahasa Jepang
it	Italian Sistema di scrittura giapponese
ja	Japanese 日本語の表記体系
ka	Georgian იაპონური დამწერლობა
kk	Kazakh Жапон жазуы
ko	Korean 일본어 표기 체계
la	Latin Scriptura Iaponica
lt	Lithuanian Japonų raštas
ms	Malay Sistem tulisan Jepun
nl	Dutch Japans schrift
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Japansk skrift
no	Norwegian Japansk skrift
pl	Polish Pismo japońskie
pt	Portuguese Escrita japonesa
ro	Romanian Scrierea japoneză
ru	Russian Японская письменность
simple	Simple English Japanese writing system
sk	Slovak Japonské písmo
sr	Serbian Јапанска писма
sv	Swedish Japanska skriftspråket
th	Thai อักษรญี่ปุ่น
tr	Turkish Japon yazı sistemi
uk	Ukrainian Японська писемність
ur	Urdu جاپانی رسم الخط
vi	Vietnamese Hệ thống chữ viết tiếng Nhật
zh	Chinese 日語書寫系統

Best Rank

Simple English: #22753 11.2024

Global: #10580 07.2021

Best Rank

Simple English: #1828 04.2026

Global: #3443 09.2002

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