Simplified Chinese characters

Quality:

Simplified Chinese characters - simplified Chinese character variants, namely used in People's Republic of China, Singapore, Malaysia. Article “Simplified Chinese characters” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Simplified Chinese characters”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9776^th place) and edited by 2207 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 488 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5331^st place) and cited 159354 times in all languages (744^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #712 in December 2023
• Global: #3933 in December 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1466 in January 2024
• Global: #5903 in September 2014

There are 47 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	Malay (ms) Tulisan Cina Ringkas		79.1435
2	Chinese (zh) 简化字		61.8813
3	German (de) Kurzzeichen		58.9308
4	English (en) Simplified Chinese characters		44.0491
5	Korean (ko) 간체자		42.6583
6	Indonesian (id) Aksara Han sederhana		37.7968
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ Hán giản thể		32.1945
8	Finnish (fi) Yksinkertaistetut merkit		30.7899
9	Thai (th) อักษรจีนตัวย่อ		30.4922
10	Arabic (ar) رموز صينية مبسطة		30.438

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Simplified Chinese characters		9 926 944
2	Chinese (zh) 简化字		2 051 460
3	Japanese (ja) 簡体字		1 695 824
4	Spanish (es) Caracteres chinos simplificados		642 070
5	Russian (ru) Упрощённые китайские иероглифы		568 083
6	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ Hán giản thể		448 676
7	French (fr) Sinogramme simplifié		378 499
8	Korean (ko) 간체자		373 790
9	Thai (th) อักษรจีนตัวย่อ		275 671
10	Italian (it) Caratteri cinesi semplificati		275 311

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) Simplified Chinese characters		28 024
2	Japanese (ja) 簡体字		4 665
3	Chinese (zh) 简化字		4 531
4	Russian (ru) Упрощённые китайские иероглифы		3 105
5	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ Hán giản thể		1 714
6	Spanish (es) Caracteres chinos simplificados		1 257
7	French (fr) Sinogramme simplifié		1 108
8	Italian (it) Caratteri cinesi semplificati		803
9	Indonesian (id) Aksara Han sederhana		670
10	Korean (ko) 간체자		606

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Simplified Chinese characters		679
2	Chinese (zh) 简化字		418
3	Japanese (ja) 簡体字		111
4	German (de) Kurzzeichen		86
5	French (fr) Sinogramme simplifié		82
6	Spanish (es) Caracteres chinos simplificados		59
7	Vietnamese (vi) Chữ Hán giản thể		54
8	Dutch (nl) Vereenvoudigde Chinese karakters		52
9	Korean (ko) 간체자		51
10	Italian (it) Caratteri cinesi semplificati		50

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) Simplified Chinese characters		2
2	Italian (it) Caratteri cinesi semplificati		2
3	Japanese (ja) 簡体字		2
4	Korean (ko) 간체자		2
5	German (de) Kurzzeichen		1
6	Basque (eu) Txinera sinplifikatu		1
7	Chinese (zh) 简化字		1
8	Arabic (ar) رموز صينية مبسطة		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Sadələşdirilmiş çincə		0
10	Belarusian (be) Спрошчаная кітайская		0

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

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