–ranked by population size
- English letter
- 中文字
- English word
- 中文词
In everyday English vocab, the largest army is the Words-army, followed by the Phrases-army. I guess a regular English speaker uses many more words than phrases.
In everyday Chinese vocab, the largest army is the 中文词-army, followed by the 中文字-army. I guess a regular Chinese speaker uses at least 10 times more phrases than characters (a few thousand).