Modern Chinese language is still Jiwan Zi much, but the frequency of use is highly unbalanced｡ Beijing Languages Institute in 1985, according to the statistics, the top ten most frequently occurring words and their frequency, as follows:
4.16% (twenty-five minutes every time you said that we should say that a 20!)
1 1.84% 1.71% is 1.52% not 1.37% I 1.28% at 1.08% with 0.98% were 0.97% the 0.93%
Cumulative 15.85%
100 words before the cumulative word frequency has reached 47.34 percent, 79.76 percent to 500 words, 2000 words covering 98.07%, if you know 4000 words (like me), you read 10000 words, only four did not recognize (of course, read what I write more and you do not have do not recognize a word, because I recognize the words and you have as many)｡
Language Institute also counts the words: out of a total of 31159 different words, in which one syllable words (one word) accounted for 12.2%, 73.6% two-syllable words, three-syllable word 7.6%, four-syllable words more than accounted for 6.4% 5 0.2 %, the average word length 2.09｡ 100 words before the cumulative frequency of 41.7%, 82.2% for the 2000 word, 9000 is 95.85%｡ word-formation ability of different Chinese characters (with other words the ability to form a new word) are not the same as most is the “child” word, word formation 668｡
Leo Peng