Character Appearance Rankings

Ranked by mentions across all 120 chapters of the standard edition, with aliases merged. Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Grandmother Jia lead the list — see “Data sources and reliability” below.

In chapter titles specifically, Jia Baoyu (Baoyu) and Lin Daiyu (Daiyu) also appear most frequently. Note: this leaderboard counts body-text mentions only; chapter titles are excluded (see “Data sources and reliability” below).

Total Appearances

27,395

Characters

227

Total 227 characters, showing top 20

Data sources and reliability

Overall reliabilityGenerated

Mention counts are computed from full-text by chapter: names and maintained aliases are merged, then aggregated for the leaderboard and downloadable CSV.

LimitationsNon-body matter (e.g. chapter titles, commentary) is excluded; cleaning and alias rules may differ from other tools.

How to citeCite Hong Lou Data Atlas, access date, and URL, and note the count is body text with alias merge.

Full methodology: Data & methods