r/classicalchinese↗
r/ClassicalChinese - for discussing and learning literary Chinese texts and resources!
This community is intended for those with an interest in discussing, reading, or translating Classical Chinese (a.k.a. Literary Chinese/Sinitic, or 古文/文言文) texts or analyzing historical Chinese linguistics. Discussion of all types of Classical Chinese texts is welcome, including Confucian, Buddhist, Taoist, historical, court, or popular documents.
11k subscribers62 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~3% by known bots)44 authors / mosince 2012
r/classicalchinese has 11k members (+37% over the last 12 months). It gets about 62 posts a month from 44 people. Top topics: Learning Mandarin, Translation Requests and Chinese Learning Phrases.
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- Learning Mandarin13%
- Translation Requests7.5%
- Chinese Learning Phrases2.2%
- Chinese Characters & Writing Systems2.1%
- Japanese Learning Journey1.6%
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- Chinese Text Project
- 汉典
- 百度一下，你就知道
- Apple
- The Unicode u00AE Standard
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