<p>Hope these would help.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.zdic.net/z/zb/cc1.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">《现代汉语常用字表》常用字(2500字)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.zdic.net/z/zb/cc2.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">《现代汉语常用字表》次常用字(1000字)</a></li>
<li>《现代汉语通用字表》(7000字) - including the above two (link available on those pages)</li>
</ul>

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2017-06-12T04:40:26.400Z
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renfeng
<p>Your idea is great, but I didn't find any authoritative material list the frequency about multiple pronunciations. Maybe because multiple pronunciations use in oral Chinese, and Chinese people learn oral Chinese before writing. So Chinese people seldom think about the frequency of multiple pronunciations. Multiple pronunciations are habits for Chinese people.But for Chinese learner, it is a little difficult to tell. I think your work is very meaningful.</p>

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2016-11-24T18:45:25.223Z
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Ting张
<p>Your idea is great. However, it's nearly impossible in my opinion. </p>

<p>Since the pronunciation of Chinese characters mostly depends on the what's the word (consisted of two or more characters) means in a whole sentence.</p>

<p>For example：</p>

<p>“你们以四行队列步行到银行，我看是不行，而且也不内行。”</p>

<p>There are 5行 in above sentence, 2 pronounce xíng, 3 pronounce háng.</p>

<p>So it comes to a dilemma, you need to collect what all people say and do statistics, which is impossible and "might harmful to freedom of speech".</p>

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2017-08-11T01:49:21.420Z
Append another sample "你们一行人”  (xing2).
Daniel Yang
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Kevman
<p>Although I'm not able to find authoritative references for pronunciation for every characters, I do find a dictionary website where you can put in the pinyin, and it will show you all the characters with that pinyin with 5 different tones. 
<a href="http://xh.5156edu.com/html2/c15.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://xh.5156edu.com/html2/c15.html</a>
 And here is all the pinyin:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>b  ba bo bai bei bao ban ben bang beng bi bie biao bian bin bing p  pa
  po pai pao pou pan pen pang peng pi pie piao pian pin ping m  ma mo me
  mai mao mou man men mang meng mi mie miao miu mian min ming f  fa fo
  fei fou fan fen fang feng d  da de dai dei dao dou dan dang deng di
  die diao diu dian ding t ta te tai tao tou tan tang teng ti tie tiao
  tian ting n  na nai nei nao no nen nang neng ni nie niao niu nian nin
  niang ning l  la le lai lei lao lou lan lang leng li lia lie liao liu
  lian lin liang ling g  ga ge gai gei gao gou gan gen gang geng k  ka
  ke kai kou kan ken kang keng h ha he hai hei hao hou hen hang heng j 
  ji jia jie jiao jiu jian jin jiang jing q qi qia qie qiao qiu qian qin
  qiang qing x  xi xia xie xiao xiu xian xin xiang xing zh zha zhe zhi
  zhai zhao zhou zhan zhen zhang zheng ch cha che chi chai chou chan
  chen chang cheng sh sha she shi shai shao shou shan shen shang sheng r
  re ri rao rou ran ren rang reng z  za ze zi zai zao zou zang zeng c 
  ca ce ci cai cao cou can cen cang ceng s sa se si sai sao sou san sen
  sang seng y  ya yao you yan yang yu ye yue yuan yi yin yun ying w  wa
  wo wai wei wan wen wang weng wu</p>
</blockquote>

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GoodluckH
<p>I'm working on a dictionary tool that provides, as an auto-assist, transcription of Chinese characters into corresponding (Modern Standard Mandarin) pinyin+tones on a naive, character-per-character basis <em>without</em> lexical parsing (the tool is intended for indexing of new terms/phrases, lexical parsing is overkill).</p>

<p>In order to make the auto-assist feature as useful as possible, I would like the assisted-transcription operation to choose the most frequent reading [1] of any individual character as the preferred default in an effort to reduce the amount of time users will spend correcting the inevitable [2] mistakes.</p>

<p>Python's pinyin package, based on <a href="https://github.com/fayland/perl-lingua-han/tree/master/Lingua-Han-PinYin/lib/Lingua/Han/PinYin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mandarin.dat</a>, seems to provide reasonably good performance in that regard; but I'm curious whether there's a standard (issued by a language authority in PRC or Taiwan) list of such frequencies available, and/or whether any list exists that includes the other possible readings, in decreasing order of frequency, by way of providing a helpful dropdown list of alternates in cases where the preferred reading doesn't happen to be correct.</p>

<p>[1] i.e., assuming a large and representative set of textual data, if a character has multiple possible readings, the pronunciation most often assigned the character based on more advanced lexical analysis of the function of the character within a larger semantic block. For example, if within the set there are three observed instances of 为[wei4]什么 and one observed instance of 作为[wei2], choose "wei4" as the default transcription option for 为.</p>

<p>[2] I'm aware of characters such as 调 for which alternate readings (in this case diao4/tiao2) are equally likely, so in these cases such "assistance" will likely never have an accuracy rate better than 50%. </p>

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2016-12-25T04:32:29.113Z
Alternatively, you could use CEDICT's data to look up words and provide pinyin for the words found in that data.
dda
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2017-04-05T04:00:19.540Z
A similar question has been [answered by LeoLiu](http://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/21911/are-there-any-dictionaries-that-show-the-relative-frequency-of-多音字/23186#23186).
SLS
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2017-08-11T01:58:31.197Z
we can only collect enough pronunciations of words other than characters, when a character is used in a word, its pronunciation is fixed.
Daniel Yang
<characters><pronunciation><resources>
Is there an authoritative list of most frequent to most infrequent pronunciations for individual Chinese characters?
# Is there an authoritative list of most frequent to most infrequent pronunciations for individual Chinese characters?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-09-11)

I'm working on a dictionary tool that provides, as an auto-assist, transcription of Chinese characters into corresponding (Modern Standard Mandarin) pinyin+tones on a naive, character-per-character basis *without* lexical parsing (the tool is intended for indexing of new terms/phrases, lexical parsing is overkill).

In order to make the auto-assist feature as useful as possible, I would like the assisted-transcription operation to choose the most frequent reading [1] of any individual character as the preferred default in an effort to reduce the amount of time users will spend correcting the inevitable [2] mistakes.

Python's pinyin package, based on [Mandarin.dat](https://github.com/fayland/perl-lingua-han/tree/master/Lingua-Han-PinYin/lib/Lingua/Han/PinYin), seems to provide reasonably good performance in that regard; but I'm curious whether there's a standard (issued by a language authority in PRC or Taiwan) list of such frequencies available, and/or whether any list exists that includes the other possible readings, in decreasing order of frequency, by way of providing a helpful dropdown list of alternates in cases where the preferred reading doesn't happen to be correct.

[1] i.e., assuming a large and representative set of textual data, if a character has multiple possible readings, the pronunciation most often assigned the character based on more advanced lexical analysis of the function of the character within a larger semantic block. For example, if within the set there are three observed instances of 为[wei4]什么 and one observed instance of 作为[wei2], choose "wei4" as the default transcription option for 为.

[2] I'm aware of characters such as 调 for which alternate readings (in this case diao4/tiao2) are equally likely, so in these cases such "assistance" will likely never have an accuracy rate better than 50%.

**Tags:** characters, pronunciation, resources

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Alternatively, you could use CEDICT's data to look up words and provide pinyin for the words found in that data.  
> **username_2**: A similar question has been [answered by LeoLiu](http://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/21911/are-there-any-dictionaries-that-show-the-relative-frequency-of-多音字/23186#23186).  
> **username_3**: we can only collect enough pronunciations of words other than characters, when a character is used in a word, its pronunciation is fixed.  

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## 4 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2017-06-12. Score: 1

Hope these would help.

* [《现代汉语常用字表》常用字(2500字)](http://www.zdic.net/z/zb/cc1.htm)
* [《现代汉语常用字表》次常用字(1000字)](http://www.zdic.net/z/zb/cc2.htm)
* 《现代汉语通用字表》(7000字) - including the above two (link available on those pages)


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### Answer by username_5 on 2016-11-24. Score: 0

Your idea is great, but I didn't find any authoritative material list the frequency about multiple pronunciations. Maybe because multiple pronunciations use in oral Chinese, and Chinese people learn oral Chinese before writing. So Chinese people seldom think about the frequency of multiple pronunciations. Multiple pronunciations are habits for Chinese people.But for Chinese learner, it is a little difficult to tell. I think your work is very meaningful.


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### Answer by username_6 on 2017-04-17. Score: 0

Your idea is great. However, it's nearly impossible in my opinion.

Since the pronunciation of Chinese characters mostly depends on the what's the word (consisted of two or more characters) means in a whole sentence.

For example：

“你们以四行队列步行到银行，我看是不行，而且也不内行。”

There are 5行 in above sentence, 2 pronounce xíng, 3 pronounce háng.

So it comes to a dilemma, you need to collect what all people say and do statistics, which is impossible and "might harmful to freedom of speech".

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: Append another sample "你们一行人”  (xing2).  

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### Answer by username_7 on 2017-01-04. Score: -1

Although I'm not able to find authoritative references for pronunciation for every characters, I do find a dictionary website where you can put in the pinyin, and it will show you all the characters with that pinyin with 5 different tones.
<http://xh.5156edu.com/html2/c15.html>
And here is all the pinyin:

> b ba bo bai bei bao ban ben bang beng bi bie biao bian bin bing p pa
> po pai pao pou pan pen pang peng pi pie piao pian pin ping m ma mo me
> mai mao mou man men mang meng mi mie miao miu mian min ming f fa fo
> fei fou fan fen fang feng d da de dai dei dao dou dan dang deng di
> die diao diu dian ding t ta te tai tao tou tan tang teng ti tie tiao
> tian ting n na nai nei nao no nen nang neng ni nie niao niu nian nin
> niang ning l la le lai lei lao lou lan lang leng li lia lie liao liu
> lian lin liang ling g ga ge gai gei gao gou gan gen gang geng k ka
> ke kai kou kan ken kang keng h ha he hai hei hao hou hen hang heng j
> ji jia jie jiao jiu jian jin jiang jing q qi qia qie qiao qiu qian qin
> qiang qing x xi xia xie xiao xiu xian xin xiang xing zh zha zhe zhi
> zhai zhao zhou zhan zhen zhang zheng ch cha che chi chai chou chan
> chen chang cheng sh sha she shi shai shao shou shan shen shang sheng r
> re ri rao rou ran ren rang reng z za ze zi zai zao zou zang zeng c
> ca ce ci cai cao cou can cen cang ceng s sa se si sai sao sou san sen
> sang seng y ya yao you yan yang yu ye yue yuan yi yin yun ying w wa
> wo wai wei wan wen wang weng wu


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