Ranking of 6773 Chinese Characters (GB 2312) by Frequency of Usage with HSK Levels

For Chinese teaching for native students or international students who take Chinese as Second language or foreign language, or for the preparation of international Chinese exams, such as HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test), YCT, GCSE Chinese, IGCSE Chinese, IB Chinese, AP Chinese, SAT Chinese, Online Chinese Courses, BCT (Business Chinese 商务汉语), Pre School Chinese, C. Test, Chinese Test etc., it is daunting task to remember thousands Chinese Characters.

There are more than 100,000 Chinese Characters in Dictionary Collections. How many Chinese Characters need to learn for Chinese Proficiency? How many Chinese Characters need to learn for different age groups? This is a very academic topics by many scholars in promoting Chinese culture and editing the relevant textbook.

Based on (GB 2312 国际标准GB 2312 6763 Chinese Characters) , HSK Vocabulary list, the statistic method done by previous academic research, we rank the 6763 Chinese Characters (GB 2312) by Frequency of Usage, HSK Levels. We did NOT follow any strictly statistic methodology rather then using our realistic knowledge from our experience.