The 9933 most common Chinese characters in order of frequency

This is a deck based on 现代汉语单字字频: Character frequency list of Modern Chinese by Jun Da at Midwestern State University. The list contains 9933 characters in total, but there are 29 very rare characters missing because they can't currently be displayed in Skritter (and not with standard fonts either): , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  .

Please note that frequencies for the rarest characters are quite meaningless as they occur so rarely in modern texts. Characters beyond the 7,000 mark occur less than ten times in the corpus data used. Please also note that the list is based on simplified Chinese texts, but that this designation becomes a bit arbitrary for the rarer characters as most of them are not part of the official lists of simplified characters anyway.

Moreover, some entries are still in traditional, presumably because some common traditional characters are still more common than other extremely rare characters, even if the text uses PRC standard in otherwise. For example, it could be that traditional 門 ("door; gate", rank 6028) occurs in some texts talking about the origins of Chinese characters. and that that bumps it up above characters like 铑 ("rhodium", rank 6031), which are clearly simplified, yet not very common.

You can read more about this deck and learning lot's of characters in Skritter: https://blog.skritter.com/2023/01/learning-a-lot-of-chinese-characters-in-skritter/

The original list can be found online here: https://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/