I found this cool web page which breaks down most of the 3,000 Chinese characters in mainstream use by how common they are. http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html
I wanted to make Anki decks out of the data on this page, so I wrote this script. There are decks for both traditional and simplified characters.
加油!
Just import one of the .txt decks under the decks
directory into Anki. IMPORTANT: when you import the deck, you have to manually specify a pipe character ("|") as the field separator. You'll also need to have "Allow HTML in fields" enabled.
You can get Anki here: Anki website
If you want to regenerate the decks from scratch, run bundle install
to get all the dependencies and then run ruby make_decks.rb
.
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