Read Japanese; your reading clears your reviews.

• 子どものすきな神さま新美南吉Mostly kana1,116 characters · 172 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Very little kanji, and short sentences. Children's stories and graded readers look like this.

  • How much of the page is kanji15% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run17 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught1.8 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list0% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon5% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 23% of this band

  Its 42 different kanji, by when they are taught

  95%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  5%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  0%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 42 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way.

  Counted over 976 characters of Japanese script and 584 words as they appear on the page, of which 337 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• イーダちゃんのお花ハンス・クリスチャン・アンデルセン　Hans Christian AndersenMostly kana9,606 characters · 737 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Very little kanji, and short sentences. Children's stories and graded readers look like this.

  • How much of the page is kanji11% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run28 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.3 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list0% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon6% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 205 different kanji, by when they are taught

  89%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  11%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  0%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 205 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way.

  Counted over 8,566 characters of Japanese script and 4,956 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,850 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• 赤ずきんちゃんグリム兄弟　Bruder GrimmMostly kana3,707 characters · 426 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Very little kanji, and short sentences. Children's stories and graded readers look like this.

  • How much of the page is kanji6% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run29 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.1 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list0% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon8% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 23% of this band

  Its 74 different kanji, by when they are taught

  91%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  10%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  0%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 74 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way.

  Counted over 3,279 characters of Japanese script and 1,833 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,084 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• かいじん二十めんそう江戸川乱歩Mostly kana12,304 characters · 875 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Very little kanji, and short sentences. Children's stories and graded readers look like this.

  • How much of the page is kanji4% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run25 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught1 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list0% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon12% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 28 different kanji, by when they are taught

  100%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  0%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  0%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 28 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way.

  Counted over 11,099 characters of Japanese script and 5,838 words as they appear on the page, of which 3,217 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• 三つのことばグリム　GrimmMostly kana2,997 characters · 370 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Very little kanji, and short sentences. Children's stories and graded readers look like this.

  • How much of the page is kanji9% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run32 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.1 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list0% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon6% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 23% of this band

  Its 102 different kanji, by when they are taught

  88%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  12%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  0%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 102 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way.

  Counted over 2,724 characters of Japanese script and 1,576 words as they appear on the page, of which 879 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• ペンとインキつぼハンス・クリスチャン・アンデルセン　Hans Christian AndersenMostly kana2,957 characters · 379 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Very little kanji, and short sentences. Children's stories and graded readers look like this.

  • How much of the page is kanji14% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run27 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.5 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list1% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon7% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 23% of this band

  Its 127 different kanji, by when they are taught

  90%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  9%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  1%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 127 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way. The published list placed 99% of those 127 characters. The rest are counted as outside 常用漢字, which is what absence means in a complete list — so the smaller that figure, the more of this chart is the list's gaps rather than the book's.

  Counted over 2,599 characters of Japanese script and 1,539 words as they appear on the page, of which 906 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• 小指一本の大試合山中峯太郎School kanji5,969 characters · 619 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Nearly all the kanji are ones taught in primary school, and the sentences stay short enough to hold in your head.

  • How much of the page is kanji17% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run19 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.6 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list1% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon8% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 230 different kanji, by when they are taught

  88%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  11%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  1%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 230 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way. The published list placed 99% of those 230 characters. The rest are counted as outside 常用漢字, which is what absence means in a complete list — so the smaller that figure, the more of this chart is the list's gaps rather than the book's.

  Counted over 5,063 characters of Japanese script and 2,903 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,752 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• お父さん林芙美子School kanji37,137 characters · 1,899 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Nearly all the kanji are ones taught in primary school, and the sentences stay short enough to hold in your head.

  • How much of the page is kanji16% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run26 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.8 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list4% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon7% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 23% of this band

  Its 648 different kanji, by when they are taught

  79%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  17%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  4%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 648 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way. The published list placed over 99% of those 648 characters. The rest are counted as outside 常用漢字, which is what absence means in a complete list — so the smaller that figure, the more of this chart is the list's gaps rather than the book's.

  Counted over 33,859 characters of Japanese script and 19,964 words as they appear on the page, of which 11,225 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• なまずとあざみの話小川未明School kanji3,013 characters · 415 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Nearly all the kanji are ones taught in primary school, and the sentences stay short enough to hold in your head.

  • How much of the page is kanji17% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run28 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.6 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list1% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon8% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 204 different kanji, by when they are taught

  91%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  8%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  1%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 204 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way.

  Counted over 2,654 characters of Japanese script and 1,579 words as they appear on the page, of which 855 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• 赤い船小川未明School kanji3,640 characters · 370 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Nearly all the kanji are ones taught in primary school, and the sentences stay short enough to hold in your head.

  • How much of the page is kanji21% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run33 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.8 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list0% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon5% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 203 different kanji, by when they are taught

  84%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  15%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  1%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 203 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way. The published list placed over 99% of those 203 characters. The rest are counted as outside 常用漢字, which is what absence means in a complete list — so the smaller that figure, the more of this chart is the list's gaps rather than the book's.

  Counted over 3,289 characters of Japanese script and 1,957 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,091 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• やんちゃオートバイ木内高音School kanji5,984 characters · 654 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Nearly all the kanji are ones taught in primary school, and the sentences stay short enough to hold in your head.

  • How much of the page is kanji18% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run28 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.7 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list3% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon7% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 23% of this band

  Its 287 different kanji, by when they are taught

  82%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  15%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  3%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 287 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way. The published list placed 99% of those 287 characters. The rest are counted as outside 常用漢字, which is what absence means in a complete list — so the smaller that figure, the more of this chart is the list's gaps rather than the book's.

  Counted over 5,381 characters of Japanese script and 3,010 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,678 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

• 先生の顔竹久夢二School kanji2,852 characters · 399 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Nearly all the kanji are ones taught in primary school, and the sentences stay short enough to hold in your head.

  • How much of the page is kanji30% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run23 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.6 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list5% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon4% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 249 different kanji, by when they are taught

  79%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  16%

  Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.

  5%

  Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.

  Counted over the 249 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way. The published list placed 99% of those 249 characters. The rest are counted as outside 常用漢字, which is what absence means in a complete list — so the smaller that figure, the more of this chart is the list's gaps rather than the book's.

  Counted over 2,614 characters of Japanese script and 1,660 words as they appear on the page, of which 940 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.

  Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.

  Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.

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