Some single-character words are included in the vocabulary list if they're often used as stand-alone words. Others that are rarely used alone or whose meaning c

Some single-character words are included in the vocabulary list if they're often used as stand-alone words. Others that are rarely used alone or whose meaning can be inferred from "compound" words (e.g. 边, which occurs in 旁边， 右边， 左边，etc) are omitted. It's all based on my best judgement (which is probably misguided sometimes). A lot of manual tweaking went into generating the vocab list. All this deduplication is encoded in this file if you're curious: https://github.com/kerrickstaley/Chinese-Vocab-List/blob/master/contrib_files/subtlex_dupes.yaml https://github.com/kerrickstaley/Chinese-Vocab-List/blob/mas... Also, in order to generate a flashcard for such a word, it would have to appear in a standalone context, e.g. 我没吃过牛肉 would not generate flashcards for 牛 or 肉, but 牛不吃肉would.