Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side)
frequency dictionary
The Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) frequency dictionary ranks the 9,023 most common Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) words and phrases, measured across 27,610,196 tokens of subtitle dialogue from the OpenSubtitles corpus. Learning the top 409 Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) entries covers half of everything said, and the top 4,583 covers 80%. The single most common Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) word is “的” (de / of), which accounts for 3.0% of running text on its own. Every entry carries its rank, raw count, Zipf score, and an English translation.
Corpus
These 9,023 entries account for 85.3% of all running Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) text in the corpus.
409 of them cover half of it.
Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) at a glance
The short answers, straight from the corpus.
- Words for half of speech
- 409
- Words for 80%
- 4,583
- Most common word
- 的
- Corpus size
- 27,610,196 tokens
Entries needed to cover 50% of everything said in Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side)
Entries needed to cover 80% of running Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) text
“de / of” — said 815,373 times in the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) corpus
210,125 distinct Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) word forms were counted
Mixed rounds
Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) · All three modes, shuffled
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The ten most common Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) entries
Together they cover 14.4% of everything said in the corpus.
- 1 的 de / of 815.4K×
- 2 我 I 779.1K×
- 3 你 you 720.6K×
- 4 了 le / Already 479K×
- 5 是 is / Yes 271.2K×
- 6 他 he 226.6K×
- 7 我们 we 184.1K×
- 8 在 in 172K×
- 9 什么 what 160.6K×
- 10 吗 ? 156.8K×
How far each slice of the list gets you
Share of running Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) text covered by everything up to that rank.
The six bands, in Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side)
The same bands the game asks you to guess.
| Band | Entries | Phrases | Median Zipf | Text covered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 100 | 100 | 1 | 6.30 | 32.9% |
| 101–500 | 400 | 30 | 5.64 | 19.8% |
| 501–1,000 | 500 | 34 | 5.24 | 9.0% |
| 1,001–2,000 | 1,000 | 81 | 4.93 | 8.8% |
| 2,001–4,000 | 2,000 | 169 | 4.58 | 8.1% |
| 4,001–8,000 | 4,000 | 338 | 4.20 | 6.7% |
Word shape
Character lengths across the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) top 1,000 — average 1.8.
Characters per word
Phrases that behave like words
727 multi-word units earned a rank of their own.
- #39 l l l
- #150 fn 黑 体 fn bold / fn Black
- #174 fscx67 fscy66 2chffffff
- #209 bord1 shad1 bord1 shad1
- #212 fnmicrosoft yahei
- #218 黑 体 fs22 bold fs22 / Black body fs22
- #219 3ahbe 4ah00 fscx67
- #220 4ah00 fscx67 fscy66 4ah00 fscx67 fscy66
What stands out in Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side)
Read straight off this language's own numbers.
- Just 409 entries cover half of everything said in the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) subtitle corpus.
- The ten most common Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) entries alone account for 14.4% of running text.
- 727 of the top 9,023 entries are multi-word phrases that behave like single units — the most common is “l l l”.
- The longest single word inside the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) top 1,000 is “3chff8000” (9 characters, rank 64).
- Most of the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) top 1,000 is short: 2-character words are the single largest group, and the average is 1.8 characters.
- Frequency falls away fast: the whole 4,001–8,000 band together covers only 6.7% of the corpus.
How this Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) ranking was calculated
Built once, offline, and shipped as static data.
The source is the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) side of OpenSubtitles v2018 via OPUS — 27,610,196 tokens of transcribed speech, which is closer to how people talk than a newspaper or Wikipedia corpus would be.
Words are counted using Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side)'s own rules rather than by splitting on spaces, so the counts hold up for writing systems that do not put spaces between words. Timings, formatting and speaker names are stripped out first. 210,125 distinct words appear in all; the 9,023 most common are kept.
Repeated word sequences that hold together are promoted into the same ranking as single words, which is why 727 entries here are phrases. Each entry carries a raw count, a per-million rate, a Zipf score, and the cumulative share of running text it and everything above it cover.
English glosses come from a translation cascade with per-entry provenance, and anything the translators only echoed back is marked unresolved rather than presented as a translation. 366 of the 9,023 Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) entries are still unresolved and are never used as game questions.
Common questions about Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) word frequency
Answered from this language's own corpus.
How many Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) words do you need to know?
Around 409 Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) words and phrases cover half of everything said in ordinary speech, and about 4,583 cover 80%. Coverage climbs steeply at first and then flattens: the whole top 9,023 reaches 85.3%, so the last few thousand entries add far less than the first few hundred.
What are the most common Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) words?
The ten most common Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) entries are 的 (de / of), 我 (I), 你 (you), 了 (le / Already), 是 (is / Yes), 他 (he), 我们 (we), 在 (in), 什么 (what) and 吗 (?). Together they account for 14.4% of all running Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) text in the corpus.
What is the most common word in Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side)?
The most common Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) word is “的”, meaning “de / of”. It appears 815,373 times across the corpus, which is 3.0% of everything said.
How is this Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) frequency list calculated?
The list is built from the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) side of the OpenSubtitles corpus — 27,610,196 tokens of transcribed dialogue, which reflects spoken language far more closely than a news or encyclopedia corpus. Text is tokenised with Unicode word boundaries, subtitle timing and formatting are stripped, and the 210,125 distinct forms found are ranked by raw count. The top 9,023 are kept, each with a per-million rate, a Zipf score, and its cumulative share of running text.
Does the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) list include phrases as well as words?
Yes. 727 of the 9,023 Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) entries are multi-word phrases that repeat tightly enough to behave like single vocabulary items — the most common is “l l l” (), at rank 39. They are ranked alongside single words rather than in a separate list, because knowing them as units is what fluency looks like.
How much Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) do the top 100 words cover?
The 100 most common Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) entries cover 32.9% of running text by themselves. That is why they are worth learning first: no other 100 items in the language come close.
Is the Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) frequency dictionary free to download?
Yes. All 8,657 translated Chinese–English subtitles (Chinese side) entries can be exported as JSON, CSV, TSV, Markdown, or an Anki deck straight from the dictionary page, with no account and no sign-up. The data is prebuilt and served as static files.
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