Psycholinguistic norms

This database documents the subjective ratings of age-of-acquisition, familiarity, imageability, concreteness and semantic radical transparency of 4376 Chinese characters.

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A detailed description of the database is available in the following article:


  • Yum, Y.N., Su, I.F., & Lau, D.K.Y. (2022). Hong Kong Chinese character psycholinguistic norms: ratings of 4376 single Chinese characters on semantic radical transparency, age-of-acquisition, familiarity, imageability, and concreteness. Behavior Research Methods.