Radical (Chinese character)

Quality:

Chinese character radical - traditional component of Chinese ideographs used for indexing them in dictionaries. Article “Radical (Chinese character)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 “Radical (Chinese character)”, its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 737 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3866 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1331 in May 2016
• Global: #5846 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9148 in May 2025
• Global: #40172 in July 2008

There are 24 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) Chinese character radicals		50.1782
2	Italian (it) Radicali (cinese)		42.4023
3	Malay (ms) Radikal aksara Cina		41.451
4	Indonesian (id) Radikal (Aksara Han)		39.0641
5	Japanese (ja) 部首		34.1335
6	Korean (ko) 부수		33.9533
7	Ukrainian (uk) Ключ (ієрогліфічний)		32.4961
8	Chinese (zh) 部首		31.1652
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Pō͘-siú		30.9668
10	Russian (ru) Ключ (иероглифика)		29.9789

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 部首		2 065 572
2	English (en) Chinese character radicals		1 412 983
3	Chinese (zh) 部首		637 739
4	Korean (ko) 부수		227 826
5	German (de) Radikal (chinesische Schrift)		205 961
6	Russian (ru) Ключ (иероглифика)		189 414
7	Thai (th) หมวดคำอักษรจีน		171 081
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ thủ		113 486
9	French (fr) Clé d'un sinogramme		109 724
10	Italian (it) Radicali (cinese)		58 875

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) Chinese character radicals		6 390
2	Japanese (ja) 部首		3 285
3	Korean (ko) 부수		2 165
4	Chinese (zh) 部首		1 392
5	Vietnamese (vi) Bộ thủ		1 198
6	Russian (ru) Ключ (иероглифика)		1 025
7	Thai (th) หมวดคำอักษรจีน		774
8	Simple English (simple) Radical (Chinese character)		658
9	German (de) Radikal (chinesische Schrift)		566
10	Italian (it) Radicali (cinese)		439

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Chinese character radicals		197
2	French (fr) Clé d'un sinogramme		73
3	Japanese (ja) 部首		67
4	German (de) Radikal (chinesische Schrift)		62
5	Chinese (zh) 部首		57
6	Russian (ru) Ключ (иероглифика)		43
7	Italian (it) Radicali (cinese)		32
8	Dutch (nl) Radicaal (Chinees schrift)		30
9	Hebrew (he) שורש (כתב סיני)		24
10	Polish (pl) Klucz (pismo chińskie)		20

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	Italian (it) Radicali (cinese)		1
2	Arabic (ar) حرف (صينية)		0
3	Belarusian (be) Іерагліфічны ключ		0
4	German (de) Radikal (chinesische Schrift)		0
5	English (en) Chinese character radicals		0
6	Spanish (es) Radical (sinograma)		0
7	French (fr) Clé d'un sinogramme		0
8	Hebrew (he) שורש (כתב סיני)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Radikal (Aksara Han)		0
10	Japanese (ja) 部首		0

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

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