Abstract: The strokes of Chinese ideograms classified into 26 types in terms of shape and their relative frequencies on newspaper materials were counted. The most frequent stroke-type (horizontal stroke) occurred 31% of the time, and the four most frequent stroke-types totaled 63%. The ratio of the occurrences of the most and least frequent stroke-types is 200 to 1. It is noted that the probabilities of the occurrences of the various stroke-types are more unequal than those of the English letters.

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