100 Most Common Chinese Characters (21-30)

Chinese (中文) is a language of characters (汉字 hàn zì). In total, there are tens of thousands of different characters. Don’t be afraid, Linguistic research that studies the frequency of use of each Chinese character shows that if you only know the 100 most common Chinese characters, you will be able to read 41% of the characters that appear in common everyday contexts! If you know the 1,000 most common characters, you will be able to read 89%. For 2,000 characters, it increases to 97%, and for the 3,000 most common characters, it reaches 99%.

Here are the 21~30 characters of 100 most frequently used Chinese characters with pinyin and English translation.