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Kanji

Quality:

Kanji - adopted logographic Chinese characters used in the modern Japanese writing system. Article “Kanji” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 5 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 4685th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 7508th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 9952nd most popular in all topics.
The 8077th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Kanji”, its content was written by 29 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7508th place) and edited by 2852 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8077th place).

The article is cited 142 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 48575 times in all languages (3376th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #352 in July 2007
  • Global: #896 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #514 in April 2008
  • Global: #4458 in February 2014

There are 48 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1French (fr)
Kanji
88.9368
2English (en)
Kanji
69.4272
3Hindi (hi)
कानजी
64.111
4Chinese (zh)
日本汉字
60.5712
5Malay (ms)
Tulisan Kanji
58.5593
6Polish (pl)
Kanji
53.4507
7German (de)
Kanji
50.6116
8Hungarian (hu)
Kandzsi
41.6918
9Indonesian (id)
Kanji
40.7401
10Japanese (ja)
日本における漢字
39.3578
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Kanji" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Kanji
13 720 686
2Spanish (es)
Kanji
2 400 576
3Russian (ru)
Кандзи
1 494 875
4German (de)
Kanji
1 290 872
5French (fr)
Kanji
1 221 135
6Chinese (zh)
日本汉字
1 191 873
7Portuguese (pt)
Kanji
922 904
8Japanese (ja)
日本における漢字
847 283
9Italian (it)
Kanji
820 296
10Polish (pl)
Kanji
758 939
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Kanji" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Kanji
35 395
2Russian (ru)
Кандзи
3 473
3French (fr)
Kanji
3 318
4Spanish (es)
Kanji
2 974
5Chinese (zh)
日本汉字
2 663
6German (de)
Kanji
2 302
7Italian (it)
Kanji
1 777
8Japanese (ja)
日本における漢字
1 559
9Polish (pl)
Kanji
1 407
10Portuguese (pt)
Kanji
1 321
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Kanji" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Kanji
779
2French (fr)
Kanji
209
3German (de)
Kanji
185
4Chinese (zh)
日本汉字
181
5Russian (ru)
Кандзи
124
6Spanish (es)
Kanji
123
7Italian (it)
Kanji
100
8Japanese (ja)
日本における漢字
91
9Vietnamese (vi)
Kanji
81
10Dutch (nl)
Kanji
74
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Kanji" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Kanji
7
2French (fr)
Kanji
3
3Arabic (ar)
كانجي
1
4Basque (eu)
Kanji
1
5Uzbek (uz)
Kanji
1
6Azerbaijani (az)
Kanci
0
7Belarusian (be)
Кандзі
0
8Bulgarian (bg)
Канджи
0
9Catalan (ca)
Kanji
0
10Czech (cs)
Kandži
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Kanji" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Korean (ko)
일본어 한자
17 026
2English (en)
Kanji
6 830
3Italian (it)
Kanji
3 959
4Polish (pl)
Kanji
3 253
5French (fr)
Kanji
2 562
6Spanish (es)
Kanji
1 843
7Chinese (zh)
日本汉字
1 394
8Indonesian (id)
Kanji
1 086
9Russian (ru)
Кандзи
1 011
10German (de)
Kanji
909
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2026:
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Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
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Authors in June 2026:
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Registered authors in all years:
Simple English:
Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
كانجي
azAzerbaijani
Kanci
beBelarusian
Кандзі
bgBulgarian
Канджи
caCatalan
Kanji
csCzech
Kandži
daDanish
Kanji
deGerman
Kanji
enEnglish
Kanji
esSpanish
Kanji
etEstonian
Kanji
euBasque
Kanji
faPersian
کانجی
fiFinnish
Kanji
frFrench
Kanji
glGalician
Kanji
heHebrew
קאנג'י
hiHindi
कानजी
hrCroatian
Kanji
huHungarian
Kandzsi
idIndonesian
Kanji
itItalian
Kanji
jaJapanese
日本における漢字
koKorean
일본어 한자
laLatin
Kanji
ltLithuanian
Kandži
msMalay
Tulisan Kanji
nlDutch
Kanji
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Kanji
noNorwegian
Kanji
plPolish
Kanji
ptPortuguese
Kanji
roRomanian
Kanji
ruRussian
Кандзи
simpleSimple English
Kanji
skSlovak
Kandži
slSlovenian
Kandži
srSerbian
Канџи
svSwedish
Kanji
taTamil
காஞ்சி (எழுத்து)
thThai
คันจิ
trTurkish
Kanji
ukUkrainian
Кандзі
urUrdu
کانجی
uzUzbek
Kanji
viVietnamese
Kanji
zhChinese
日本汉字
zhminnanMin Nan
Ji̍t-pún Hàn-jī

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#514
04.2008
Global:
#4458
02.2014

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#352
07.2007
Global:
#896
09.2012

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Kanji from Wikipedia articles about Hiragana, Japanese, Japanese writing system, Katakana and Chinese characters. Whereas reading the article about Kanji people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Hiragana, Katakana, Chinese characters, Furigana and Japanese writing system.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

en: Kanji
es: Kanji
de: Kanji
fr: Kanji
pt: Kanji
it: Kanji
pl: Kanji
id: Kanji
vi: Kanji
nl: Kanji
tr: Kanji
fi: Kanji
sv: Kanji
simple: Kanji
ro: Kanji
no: Kanji
ca: Kanji
da: Kanji
hr: Kanji
et: Kanji
gl: Kanji
nn: Kanji
eu: Kanji
az: Kanci
uz: Kanji
la: Kanji

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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