HH Missing SUBTLEX-CH items:

The most common words in SUBTLEX-CH (Chinese subtitle frequencies, so it leans spoken/conversational) that HanziHero doesn't teach, most common first.

This is the companion to my HH missing HSK3 items page. HSK tells you what a syllabus thinks you should know; SUBTLEX tells you what people actually say. Same idea though: I wanted a to-do list of things to add manually via the HH dictionary, and once I had the data it was easy enough to share.

SUBTLEX-CH has 99,121 entries and 91,058 of them aren't in HH - but that number is meaningless on its own, because the tail of a 99k word list is full of names, typos and one-off junk. The interesting part is the top: only 233 of the top 1,000 are missing, and 2,109 of the top 5,000. For the top 1,000, just 5 are single characters ( 嗯 , 噢 , 嗨 , 呃 , 喔 ) - all interjections, which HH reasonably skips. 66 of those top-1,000 misses aren't in the HSK 3.1 list either, so the HSK page won't catch them.

As with the HSK list, most of the misses are multi-character words rather than characters, because HH teaches one meaning per character and only includes words that use that meaning. Lots of them are transparent once you know the characters ( 一个 , 这个 ), but plenty aren't.