frontmatter 
title: "Chinese"
iso639_3: zho
iso639_1: zh
ran: "9/9/en-7/ja-7"
S: 9
M: 9
B_max: 7
ran_sum: 25
speakers: 1299877520
tags: [language]

Chinese

9/9/en-7/ja-7

Chinese (ISO 639-3 zho). In words: billions of fluent speakers; billions of monolingual sentences; tens of millions of sentences parallel with English, tens of millions of sentences parallel with Japanese.

Score breakdown

ComponentDigitRaw countReads asTop corpus
Speakers (S)91,299,877,520billions—
Monolingual (M)98,875,676,032billions—
Bilingual · English (en)771,383,325tens of millionsCCMatrix
Bilingual · Japanese (ja)712,403,136tens of millionsCCMatrix

Benchmark performance

Published zero-shot results used to validate the notation (see the RAN Paper).

TaskBenchmarkMetricScore
MTNLLB-200 FLORESchrF++52.9
NERXTREME WikiANN XLM-R LargeF133.1
POSXTREME UD XLM-R LargeAccuracy25.7
Note

Macrolanguage; OSCAR/OPUS zh; sub-tags zh_TW, zh_CN, cmn excluded

Sources

  • Wikidata: Q7850
  • Counts use the sources this site applies consistently (see the overview) — Ethnologue (speakers), OSCAR 23.01 (monolingual), OPUS (bilingual) — except where this page's notes record a different source. The top corpus for each bilingual partner is shown in the breakdown above.

See the RAN overview for how scores are computed and what they mean.

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