above: Arrangement of the Dvorak Keyboard layout↗ and the traditional QWERTY. The red are the most frequent letters used in pinyin, followed by yellow, then green.
Xah Lee, 2005-09-01
The following is a letter frequency of Chinese in pinyin. The data it is based on is not large, but it does give a rough indication of pinyin letter frequency.
Tones 4 9714 2 7137 1 6805 3 5125 5 1547 Letters i 12620 n 11269 a 9314 u 7075 g 6922 e 6851 h 6815 o 5519 z 3545 d 3363 s 2585 y 2571 j 2299 l 1522 b 1422 x 1361 c 1150 w 1097 r 1073 m 930 f 925 t 881 q 717 k 448 p 255 v 12 (v is u umlaut as in nv (woman) etc)
This table is compiled by Dylan Sung, taken from his post in newsgroup sci.lang of 20050827, subject: “Letter frequency of Chinese pinyin”.
Originally, i'm curious about frequency of pinyin because i'm wondering whether Dvorak keyboard is also very efficient in typing pinyin than qwerty.
above: Arrangement of the Dvorak Keyboard layout↗ and the traditional QWERTY. The red are the most frequent letters used in pinyin, followed by yellow, then green.
For the list of letter frequencies of English text, see Wikipedia: Letter frequencies↗.
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