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The Secrete History of Mongols (SHM) is a special Mongolian historical document transliterated with Chinese characters as phonetic symbols, which features caused many interested
researches in later ages. The discussion of this paper is mostly about the used Chinese
characters, the frequencies, and the rules of transliteration on SHM. All the statistic data and
the analysis is based on the electronic text of SHM, which supports providing those important
data in an all‐round way, including the whole transliterated Chinese characters, aligned Chinese
glosses by the side of characters, and translated original Chinese paragraphs. Furthermore, four
types of Chinese characters as phonetic symbols and their information have been discussed, which are type C, xC, Cy, and xCy as in original forms: 安, 中豁, 阿勒, and 舌魯黑. Shortly, this statistics is so far a most completed inspection on the text of the Secrete History of Mongols.