Frequently used characters

[fenlan]

Please find attached a list of the Ministry of Education's 3500 commonly used characters. This is divided into 2 parts: the first 2500 are to be mastered in primary school, the next 1000 in secondary school.

[syu.edu]

hello,

i can open your link, but it just shows me some red and black dots. seems like my system is not supporting this "chinese characters in pdf's" stuff?

[roddy]

Acrobat Reader should automatically download the simplified fonts it needs.

The list is arranged by character strokes, and there's no pinyin or translation provided.

Roddy

[fenlan]

Roddy, I am wondering if people on the list would be interested in a gradual collaborative effort to provide pinyin and translations for the 3500 characters?

I attach the list as a Unicode text file as an alternative to the PDF.

[roddy]

Ask them then

I'm dubious about the value of character based 'most frequent' lists - word lists are, for my money, much more useful - although obviously both are handy.

Either way, I suspect you could run that list through either Cedict or Adso and come out with a list of pinyin and meaning reasonably easily.

Roddy

[chenpv]

waa, are those characters required in HSK? thats a tough job for you guys though.

[syu.edu]

thanks a lot fenlan.

[fenlan]

Roddy, I never thought of that. I'll try ADSO - I tried it and it didn't work. ADSO can't work with more than a paragraph of text.

Chenpv, HSK requires 2905 characters (not the 3500 that the ministry of education requires for Chinese children). Roddy has a list somewhere.

[Quest]

There you go, list with adostrans pinyin and translation.

Rename to html

[fenlan]

Thank you, Quest. For some reason, I was having trouble adsotating such a large file.