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Word clouds
Word clouds are visual representations of relative word frequency in texts.
The word clouds on this site take into account both frequency of a word in a particular text, and also the frequency of that word in all texts. This means that a relatively uncommon word that appears 20 times in a text might appear larger than a very common word appearing say 30 times. As a result the word clouds on this site highlight unusually frequent words in a text, rather than simply frequent words as such.
In the Analects for example, the word "
![](https://ctext.org/media/analects.png)
On the other hand, in the Xiaojing, "
![](https://ctext.org/media/xiao-jing.png)
To display the word cloud for a particular text, click on the icon shown on its contents page under "Media".
The word clouds on this site were inspired by Wordle, where anyone can create their own word clouds online, and created using WordCram.
Please credit any use of these images to Donald Sturgeon, and include a link to this page or to http://ctext.org if you reproduce or modify them.