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.

• 最終の午後モルナール・フェレンツ　Molnar FerencSchool kanji4,179 characters · 469 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 run18 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.3 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 list8% 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 296 different kanji, by when they are taught

  72%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  20%

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

  8%

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

  Counted over the 296 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 96% of those 296 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 3,872 characters of Japanese script and 2,314 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,315 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.

• 水菓子屋の要吉木内高音School kanji5,588 characters · 675 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 kanji15% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run33 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3 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 uncommon9% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 228 different kanji, by when they are taught

  87%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  13%

  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 228 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 5,047 characters of Japanese script and 2,976 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,619 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.

• ポラーノの広場宮沢賢治School kanji20,901 characters · 1,378 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 run22 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 list8% 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 623 different kanji, by when they are taught

  70%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  22%

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

  8%

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

  Counted over the 623 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 97% of those 623 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 18,959 characters of Japanese script and 10,545 words as they appear on the page, of which 5,944 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.

• 音楽時計室生犀星School kanji4,584 characters · 537 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 kanji23% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run21 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 list9% 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 301 different kanji, by when they are taught

  69%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  22%

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

  9%

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

  Counted over the 301 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 96% of those 301 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 4,119 characters of Japanese script and 2,569 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,582 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.

• 猿かに合戦楠山正雄School kanji3,270 characters · 361 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 kanji15% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run20 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.4 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 uncommon10% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 118 different kanji, by when they are taught

  80%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  20%

  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 118 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 2,901 characters of Japanese script and 1,781 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,026 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.

• 清造と沼宮島資夫School kanji5,817 characters · 662 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 run31 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.9 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 list2% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon9% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 268 different kanji, by when they are taught

  87%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  11%

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

  2%

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

  Counted over the 268 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 5,356 characters of Japanese script and 3,281 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,818 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.

• 辻馬車モルナール・フェレンツ　Molnar FerencSchool kanji5,543 characters · 504 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 kanji22% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run20 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.4 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 list7% 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 305 different kanji, by when they are taught

  71%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  22%

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

  7%

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

  Counted over the 305 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 98% of those 305 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 5,138 characters of Japanese script and 3,020 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,782 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.

• 三つの眼鏡無署名（夢野久作）School kanji1,722 characters · 268 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 kanji24% 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 taught3.6 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 list3% 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 144 different kanji, by when they are taught

  79%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  19%

  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 144 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 1,595 characters of Japanese script and 1,016 words as they appear on the page, of which 575 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.

• 雨ふり坊主夢野久作School kanji1,701 characters · 261 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 kanji25% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run18 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.4 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 uncommon7% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 23% of this band

  Its 149 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 149 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 149 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 1,569 characters of Japanese script and 992 words as they appear on the page, of which 585 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.

• 誰が・何時・何処で・何をした竹久夢二School kanji4,432 characters · 642 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 kanji25% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run24 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 list5% 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 365 different kanji, by when they are taught

  75%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  20%

  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 365 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 365 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 3,992 characters of Japanese script and 2,473 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,391 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.

• ツクツク法師夢野久作School kanji2,780 characters · 363 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 kanji23% 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 taught3.5 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 list8% 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 202 different kanji, by when they are taught

  73%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  19%

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

  8%

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

  Counted over the 202 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 97% of those 202 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 2,584 characters of Japanese script and 1,664 words as they appear on the page, of which 992 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.

• 身体検査ソログーブ・フョードルSchool kanji5,783 characters · 762 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 kanji22% 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 taught3.3 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 list7% 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 423 different kanji, by when they are taught

  73%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  21%

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

  7%

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

  Counted over the 423 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 97% of those 423 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 5,234 characters of Japanese script and 2,942 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,686 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.

• 株式仲買店々員コナンドイル　Arthur Conan DoyleSchool kanji19,704 characters · 1,671 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 kanji26% 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 taught3.6 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 list6% 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 831 different kanji, by when they are taught

  71%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  23%

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

  6%

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

  Counted over the 831 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 97% of those 831 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 17,796 characters of Japanese script and 11,099 words as they appear on the page, of which 6,473 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.

• 梨の実小山内薫School kanji2,827 characters · 419 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 kanji28% 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 taught3.4 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 list6% 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 · 22% of this band

  Its 266 different kanji, by when they are taught

  73%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  21%

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

  6%

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

  Counted over the 266 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 98% of those 266 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 2,597 characters of Japanese script and 1,671 words as they appear on the page, of which 965 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.

• 小公女フランセス・ホッヂソン・バァネット　Frances Hodgeson BurnettSchool kanji116,488 characters · 3,747 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 kanji22% 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 taught3.4 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 list16% 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 1,421 different kanji, by when they are taught

  54%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  31%

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

  16%

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

  Counted over the 1,421 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 91% of those 1,421 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 104,728 characters of Japanese script and 62,651 words as they appear on the page, of which 34,589 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.

• キキリツツリ夢野久作School kanji3,051 characters · 393 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 kanji28% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run36 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.3 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 list6% 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 246 different kanji, by when they are taught

  81%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  13%

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

  6%

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

  Counted over the 246 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 98% of those 246 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 2,853 characters of Japanese script and 1,748 words as they appear on the page, of which 999 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.

• 安達が原楠山正雄School kanji3,398 characters · 501 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 kanji19% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run36 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 uncommon11% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 243 different kanji, by when they are taught

  82%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  18%

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

  under 1%

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

  Counted over the 243 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 3,138 characters of Japanese script and 1,824 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,033 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.

• 蝦蟇を食べた話北大路魯山人School kanji3,395 characters · 451 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 kanji26% 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 taught3.6 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 list4% 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 292 different kanji, by when they are taught

  75%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  21%

  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 292 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 97% of those 292 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 3,095 characters of Japanese script and 1,946 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,184 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.

• フランドン農学校の豚宮沢賢治School kanji11,494 characters · 1,138 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 kanji26% 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 taught3.6 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 list8% 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 594 different kanji, by when they are taught

  69%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  23%

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

  8%

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

  Counted over the 594 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 97% of those 594 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 10,356 characters of Japanese script and 6,208 words as they appear on the page, of which 3,727 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.

• でたらめ経宇野浩二School kanji5,445 characters · 518 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 kanji23% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run38 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.3 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 list5% 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 281 different kanji, by when they are taught

  77%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  19%

  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 281 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 98% of those 281 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 4,835 characters of Japanese script and 3,080 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,783 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.

• 世界怪談名作集モーパッサン　Guy De MaupassantSchool kanji7,030 characters · 886 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 kanji24% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run37 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list6% 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 533 different kanji, by when they are taught

  69%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  26%

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

  6%

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

  Counted over the 533 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 98% of those 533 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 6,546 characters of Japanese script and 4,077 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,329 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.

• 豚吉とヒョロ子夢野久作Newspaper kanji54,992 characters · 2,096 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji27% 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 taught3.5 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 list12% 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 905 different kanji, by when they are taught

  60%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  28%

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

  12%

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

  Counted over the 905 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 95% of those 905 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 50,436 characters of Japanese script and 31,412 words as they appear on the page, of which 18,591 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.

• ごん狐新美南吉Newspaper kanji4,801 characters · 617 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji17% 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 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 list4% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon15% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 199 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.

  4%

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

  Counted over the 199 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 199 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 4,300 characters of Japanese script and 2,679 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,459 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.

• 虫の生命夢野久作Newspaper kanji2,832 characters · 434 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji32% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run30 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.3 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 list7% 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 · 22% of this band

  Its 263 different kanji, by when they are taught

  76%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  18%

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

  7%

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

  Counted over the 263 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 98% of those 263 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 2,700 characters of Japanese script and 1,738 words as they appear on the page, of which 927 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.

• 新学期行進曲海野十三Newspaper kanji9,734 characters · 1,026 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji30% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run21 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 list7% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon10% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 542 different kanji, by when they are taught

  75%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  18%

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

  7%

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

  Counted over the 542 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 98% of those 542 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 8,542 characters of Japanese script and 5,002 words as they appear on the page, of which 3,071 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.

• 或る少女の死まで室生犀星Newspaper kanji42,337 characters · 2,853 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji25% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run22 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list14% 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 1,305 different kanji, by when they are taught

  54%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  32%

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

  14%

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

  Counted over the 1,305 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 92% of those 1,305 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 38,439 characters of Japanese script and 24,578 words as they appear on the page, of which 14,696 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.

• 槍が岳に登った記芥川龍之介Newspaper kanji2,546 characters · 487 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji25% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run31 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught2.9 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 list8% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon10% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 272 different kanji, by when they are taught

  75%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  17%

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

  8%

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

  Counted over the 272 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 95% of those 272 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 2,418 characters of Japanese script and 1,546 words as they appear on the page, of which 915 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.

• 柔道と拳闘の転がり試合富田常雄Newspaper kanji3,646 characters · 564 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji25% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run23 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.2 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 uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 269 different kanji, by when they are taught

  81%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  18%

  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 269 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 269 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 3,280 characters of Japanese script and 1,804 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,078 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.

• 或る精神異常者モーリス・ルヴェルNewspaper kanji4,059 characters · 628 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji25% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run39 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 uncommon9% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 349 different kanji, by when they are taught

  78%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  17%

  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 349 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 98% of those 349 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 3,767 characters of Japanese script and 2,264 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,373 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.

• 長彦と丸彦豊島与志雄Newspaper kanji10,259 characters · 987 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji20% 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 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 list5% 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 370 different kanji, by when they are taught

  78%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  17%

  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 370 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 370 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 9,341 characters of Japanese script and 5,815 words as they appear on the page, of which 3,287 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.

• 夜長姫と耳男坂口安吾Newspaper kanji27,290 characters · 2,054 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji22% 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 taught3.4 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 list9% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon11% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 798 different kanji, by when they are taught

  65%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  27%

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

  9%

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

  Counted over the 798 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 96% of those 798 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 25,421 characters of Japanese script and 16,116 words as they appear on the page, of which 9,086 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.

• 猿面冠者太宰治Newspaper kanji14,985 characters · 1,645 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji24% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run30 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.5 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 list8% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon10% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 825 different kanji, by when they are taught

  68%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  24%

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

  8%

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

  Counted over the 825 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 96% of those 825 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 13,763 characters of Japanese script and 8,162 words as they appear on the page, of which 5,036 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.

• 霊魂第十号の秘密海野十三Newspaper kanji42,781 characters · 2,955 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji26% 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 taught3.3 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 list7% 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 · 23% of this band

  Its 1,117 different kanji, by when they are taught

  66%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  27%

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

  7%

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

  Counted over the 1,117 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 97% of those 1,117 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 38,911 characters of Japanese script and 23,574 words as they appear on the page, of which 14,293 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.

• ジーキル博士とハイド氏の怪事件スティーヴンスン　Stevenson Robert LouisNewspaper kanji73,588 characters · 4,206 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji27% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run36 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.5 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 list11% 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 1,501 different kanji, by when they are taught

  56%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  33%

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

  11%

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

  Counted over the 1,501 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 93% of those 1,501 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 67,692 characters of Japanese script and 42,901 words as they appear on the page, of which 25,846 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.

• 野槌の百吉川英治Newspaper kanji25,814 characters · 2,284 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji26% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run19 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.5 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list13% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon11% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 983 different kanji, by when they are taught

  59%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  28%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 983 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 93% of those 983 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 21,400 characters of Japanese script and 13,287 words as they appear on the page, of which 7,422 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.

• 探偵小説このごろ江戸川乱歩Newspaper kanji4,770 characters · 660 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji31% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run26 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.3 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 list4% 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 425 different kanji, by when they are taught

  81%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  16%

  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 425 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 425 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 4,276 characters of Japanese script and 2,606 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,588 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.

• 山の春高村光太郎Newspaper kanji3,826 characters · 689 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji24% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run44 characters per sentence · 20% 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 uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 336 different kanji, by when they are taught

  81%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  16%

  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 336 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 336 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 3,572 characters of Japanese script and 2,127 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,264 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.

• 国際射的大競技小酒井不木Newspaper kanji2,782 characters · 462 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji31% 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 taught3.2 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 list2% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 23% of this band

  Its 293 different kanji, by when they are taught

  78%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  20%

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

  2%

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

  Counted over the 293 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 2,569 characters of Japanese script and 1,514 words as they appear on the page, of which 869 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.

• 鴨の喜劇魯迅Newspaper kanji2,500 characters · 445 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji32% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run29 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list10% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon9% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 333 different kanji, by when they are taught

  73%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  17%

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

  10%

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

  Counted over the 333 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 94% of those 333 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 2,300 characters of Japanese script and 1,444 words as they appear on the page, of which 833 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.

• 八十八夜太宰治Newspaper kanji13,603 characters · 1,630 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji26% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run21 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list9% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 846 different kanji, by when they are taught

  65%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  26%

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

  10%

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

  Counted over the 846 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 96% of those 846 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 11,832 characters of Japanese script and 7,040 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,272 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.

• 一年の計佐々木邦Newspaper kanji6,560 characters · 868 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji35% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run17 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list10% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon11% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 598 different kanji, by when they are taught

  67%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  23%

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

  10%

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

  Counted over the 598 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 95% of those 598 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 5,874 characters of Japanese script and 3,773 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,230 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.

• 片信有島武郎Newspaper kanji8,875 characters · 957 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji31% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run52 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list6% 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 622 different kanji, by when they are taught

  73%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  21%

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

  6%

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

  Counted over the 622 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 97% of those 622 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 8,420 characters of Japanese script and 5,282 words as they appear on the page, of which 3,225 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.

• 風琴と魚の町林芙美子Newspaper kanji13,322 characters · 1,469 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji30% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run22 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.5 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 list13% 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 808 different kanji, by when they are taught

  64%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  23%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 808 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 93% of those 808 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 11,624 characters of Japanese script and 7,625 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,315 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.

• 符牒の語源三代目　三遊亭金馬Newspaper kanji5,918 characters · 847 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji30% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run22 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list9% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 529 different kanji, by when they are taught

  73%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  19%

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

  9%

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

  Counted over the 529 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 96% of those 529 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 5,190 characters of Japanese script and 3,074 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,733 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.

• 雪の化石２中谷宇吉郎Newspaper kanji4,553 characters · 586 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji30% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run37 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.5 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 uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 363 different kanji, by when they are taught

  83%

  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 363 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 363 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 4,228 characters of Japanese script and 2,548 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,534 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.

• 或る女有島武郎Newspaper kanji150,123 characters · 7,128 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji28% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run39 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 list16% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon10% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 1,878 different kanji, by when they are taught

  49%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  34%

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

  16%

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

  Counted over the 1,878 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 90% of those 1,878 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 140,782 characters of Japanese script and 87,282 words as they appear on the page, of which 50,604 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.

• 山の秋高村光太郎Newspaper kanji7,420 characters · 1,153 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji27% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run37 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.3 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 list5% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon14% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 594 different kanji, by when they are taught

  71%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  24%

  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 594 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 594 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 6,985 characters of Japanese script and 4,255 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,543 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.

• 織成蒲松齢Newspaper kanji3,563 characters · 501 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji30% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run22 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught4 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 list13% 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 378 different kanji, by when they are taught

  64%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  23%

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

  14%

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

  Counted over the 378 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 93% of those 378 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 3,273 characters of Japanese script and 2,231 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,216 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.

• キリスト教入門矢内原忠雄Newspaper kanji118,821 characters · 4,672 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji32% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run45 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.4 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 list9% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon11% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 1,512 different kanji, by when they are taught

  58%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  33%

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

  9%

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

  Counted over the 1,512 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 96% of those 1,512 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 110,753 characters of Japanese script and 69,546 words as they appear on the page, of which 43,296 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.

• 踊る美人像野村胡堂Newspaper kanji15,383 characters · 1,711 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji38% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run29 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list11% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon10% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 977 different kanji, by when they are taught

  61%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  28%

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

  11%

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

  Counted over the 977 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 94% of those 977 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 13,896 characters of Japanese script and 8,753 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,837 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.

• 落雷のあと豊島与志雄Newspaper kanji7,044 characters · 1,065 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji33% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run33 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list9% 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 655 different kanji, by when they are taught

  68%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  22%

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

  10%

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

  Counted over the 655 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 96% of those 655 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 6,459 characters of Japanese script and 4,200 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,318 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.

• 文化学院の設立について与謝野晶子Newspaper kanji4,653 characters · 704 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji45% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run52 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 list4% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon10% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 496 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 496 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 496 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 4,357 characters of Japanese script and 2,818 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,760 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.

• 文芸の哲学的基礎夏目漱石Newspaper kanji49,462 characters · 2,976 distinct words
  How this is counted

  The characters a newspaper uses, at ordinary sentence length. Comfortable once the common two thousand words are familiar.

  • How much of the page is kanji33% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run45 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 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 list13% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon9% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 1,379 different kanji, by when they are taught

  57%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  30%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 1,379 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 93% of those 1,379 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 46,569 characters of Japanese script and 29,205 words as they appear on the page, of which 17,853 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.

• 外科室泉鏡花Lots of kanji7,256 characters · 1,091 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji29% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run25 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.9 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list11% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon14% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 649 different kanji, by when they are taught

  64%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  25%

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

  11%

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

  Counted over the 649 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 92% of those 649 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 6,525 characters of Japanese script and 3,807 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,159 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.

• 茶粥の記矢田津世子Lots of kanji14,528 characters · 1,987 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji31% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run30 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list15% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 1,040 different kanji, by when they are taught

  59%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  26%

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

  15%

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

  Counted over the 1,040 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 92% of those 1,040 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 13,502 characters of Japanese script and 8,567 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,750 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.

• 読書と著書矢内原忠雄Lots of kanji3,820 characters · 637 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji42% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run36 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 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 list6% 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 480 different kanji, by when they are taught

  75%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  19%

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

  6%

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

  Counted over the 480 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 98% of those 480 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 3,517 characters of Japanese script and 2,212 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,363 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.

• 阿部一族森鴎外Lots of kanji27,433 characters · 2,475 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji37% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run32 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.5 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list14% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 20% of this band

  Its 1,230 different kanji, by when they are taught

  56%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  29%

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

  14%

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

  Counted over the 1,230 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 93% of those 1,230 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 25,553 characters of Japanese script and 15,987 words as they appear on the page, of which 8,172 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.

• 堕落論坂口安吾Lots of kanji7,579 characters · 1,087 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji38% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run47 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.8 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 list7% 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 714 different kanji, by when they are taught

  70%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  24%

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

  7%

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

  Counted over the 714 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 96% of those 714 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 7,195 characters of Japanese script and 4,713 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,786 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.

• 社会事情と科学的精神石原純Lots of kanji9,610 characters · 1,001 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji32% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run73 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.8 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 uncommon10% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 639 different kanji, by when they are taught

  72%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  24%

  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 639 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 98% of those 639 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 9,238 characters of Japanese script and 5,664 words as they appear on the page, of which 3,575 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.

• 二面の箏鈴木鼓村Lots of kanji5,284 characters · 797 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji36% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run139 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 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 list7% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon9% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 587 different kanji, by when they are taught

  69%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  24%

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

  7%

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

  Counted over the 587 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 97% of those 587 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 4,987 characters of Japanese script and 3,209 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,844 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.

• 学校騒動尾崎士郎Lots of kanji35,834 characters · 3,218 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji34% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run50 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.4 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 list11% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 1,342 different kanji, by when they are taught

  60%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  29%

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

  11%

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

  Counted over the 1,342 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 95% of those 1,342 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 33,194 characters of Japanese script and 21,052 words as they appear on the page, of which 12,418 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.

• 洪川禅師のことども鈴木大拙Lots of kanji4,866 characters · 837 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji43% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run32 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.9 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list12% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 667 different kanji, by when they are taught

  64%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  25%

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

  12%

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

  Counted over the 667 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 94% of those 667 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 4,484 characters of Japanese script and 2,900 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,667 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.

• 平塚・山川・山田三女史に答う与謝野晶子Lots of kanji12,339 characters · 1,425 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji43% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run65 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list8% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon9% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 885 different kanji, by when they are taught

  66%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  26%

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

  8%

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

  Counted over the 885 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 96% of those 885 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 11,551 characters of Japanese script and 7,564 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,659 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.

• 竜芥川龍之介Lots of kanji9,374 characters · 1,116 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji31% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run56 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list13% 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 687 different kanji, by when they are taught

  59%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  28%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 687 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 93% of those 687 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 8,705 characters of Japanese script and 5,442 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,965 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.

• 雪中谷宇吉郎Lots of kanji76,147 characters · 3,705 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji39% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run48 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.5 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 list13% 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 1,506 different kanji, by when they are taught

  56%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  30%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 1,506 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 93% of those 1,506 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 71,974 characters of Japanese script and 46,881 words as they appear on the page, of which 29,347 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.

• 伊勢之巻泉鏡花Lots of kanji17,529 characters · 1,959 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji34% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run38 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.8 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list19% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 1,168 different kanji, by when they are taught

  53%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  27%

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

  19%

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

  Counted over the 1,168 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 90% of those 1,168 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 15,477 characters of Japanese script and 9,392 words as they appear on the page, of which 5,279 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.

• UntitledLots of kanji215,467 characters · 6,830 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji40% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run52 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 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 list15% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon11% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 1,870 different kanji, by when they are taught

  50%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  36%

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

  15%

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

  Counted over the 1,870 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 92% of those 1,870 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 202,760 characters of Japanese script and 130,741 words as they appear on the page, of which 84,950 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.

• 女肉を料理する男牧逸馬Lots of kanji25,222 characters · 2,709 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji32% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run51 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 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 list12% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 1,253 different kanji, by when they are taught

  57%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  30%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 1,253 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 93% of those 1,253 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 23,362 characters of Japanese script and 14,169 words as they appear on the page, of which 8,618 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.

• 興津弥五右衛門の遺書森鴎外Lots of kanji7,041 characters · 1,006 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji58% of the script on the page · 25% of this band
  • How long the sentences run44 characters per sentence · 21% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 25% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list9% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon20% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 17% of this band

  Its 750 different kanji, by when they are taught

  65%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  26%

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

  9%

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

  Counted over the 750 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 96% of those 750 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 6,562 characters of Japanese script and 3,658 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,749 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.

• 茂吉の一面宇野浩二Lots of kanji4,669 characters · 694 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji39% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run78 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.4 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list5% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 499 different kanji, by when they are taught

  75%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  20%

  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 499 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 98% of those 499 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 4,130 characters of Japanese script and 2,580 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,474 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.

• 南島譚中島敦Lots of kanji5,395 characters · 890 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji40% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run35 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught4.1 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 list15% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon14% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 691 different kanji, by when they are taught

  59%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  26%

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

  15%

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

  Counted over the 691 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 91% of those 691 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 5,043 characters of Japanese script and 3,272 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,909 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.

• 青竹山本周五郎Lots of kanji14,662 characters · 1,562 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji25% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run70 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught4 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list12% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 782 different kanji, by when they are taught

  63%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  24%

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

  12%

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

  Counted over the 782 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 95% of those 782 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 13,617 characters of Japanese script and 8,197 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,367 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.

• 土俵の夢尾崎士郎Lots of kanji4,377 characters · 781 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji35% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run66 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.6 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list7% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon14% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 535 different kanji, by when they are taught

  72%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  21%

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

  7%

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

  Counted over the 535 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 97% of those 535 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 4,187 characters of Japanese script and 2,634 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,566 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.

• 小田原陣菊池寛Lots of kanji9,483 characters · 1,612 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji48% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run36 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.9 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list13% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon16% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 19% of this band

  Its 1,024 different kanji, by when they are taught

  59%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  28%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 1,024 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 93% of those 1,024 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 8,755 characters of Japanese script and 5,624 words as they appear on the page, of which 2,934 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.

• 真田幸村菊池寛Lots of kanji13,389 characters · 1,776 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji45% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run39 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.7 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list13% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon17% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 20% of this band

  Its 1,033 different kanji, by when they are taught

  60%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  27%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 1,033 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 95% of those 1,033 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 12,167 characters of Japanese script and 7,912 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,133 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.

• 探偵小説と音楽野村胡堂Lots of kanji3,381 characters · 601 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji37% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run78 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.8 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 list8% 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 481 different kanji, by when they are taught

  69%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  23%

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

  8%

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

  Counted over the 481 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 97% of those 481 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 3,126 characters of Japanese script and 1,947 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,129 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.

• 高島異誌国枝史郎Lots of kanji12,958 characters · 1,769 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji41% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run28 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught4.1 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list16% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon15% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 1,055 different kanji, by when they are taught

  56%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  27%

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

  17%

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

  Counted over the 1,055 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 92% of those 1,055 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 11,543 characters of Japanese script and 7,536 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,283 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.

• 『グリム童話集』序金田鬼一Lots of kanji4,101 characters · 667 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji33% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
  • How long the sentences run81 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.4 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 list6% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon16% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band

  Its 472 different kanji, by when they are taught

  77%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  17%

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

  6%

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

  Counted over the 472 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 97% of those 472 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 3,736 characters of Japanese script and 2,168 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,343 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.

• かやの生立岡本かの子Lots of kanji12,597 characters · 1,821 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji34% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run47 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.9 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list15% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon15% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 992 different kanji, by when they are taught

  57%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  28%

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

  15%

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

  Counted over the 992 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 93% of those 992 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 11,605 characters of Japanese script and 7,589 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,318 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.

• 武士を夷ということの考喜田貞吉Lots of kanji16,986 characters · 1,789 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji39% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run41 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught4.1 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list13% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon17% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 19% of this band

  Its 1,024 different kanji, by when they are taught

  61%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  26%

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

  13%

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

  Counted over the 1,024 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 94% of those 1,024 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 15,640 characters of Japanese script and 9,565 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,995 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.

• 白くれない夢野久作Lots of kanji25,032 characters · 2,971 distinct words
  How this is counted

  A wide range of kanji and long sentences. Expect to look words up, and expect to read sentences twice.

  • How much of the page is kanji42% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run30 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.9 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list20% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon18% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 20% of this band

  Its 1,551 different kanji, by when they are taught

  49%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  31%

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

  20%

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

  Counted over the 1,551 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 89% of those 1,551 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 22,727 characters of Japanese script and 13,864 words as they appear on the page, of which 7,586 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.

• 奥州における御館藤原氏喜田貞吉Rare kanji17,013 characters · 2,103 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Many of the kanji are outside the common 常用漢字 set, and the sentences run long. Slow going even with a big vocabulary.

  • How much of the page is kanji48% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run46 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught4 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list15% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon19% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 19% of this band

  Its 1,135 different kanji, by when they are taught

  58%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  27%

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

  15%

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

  Counted over the 1,135 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 93% of those 1,135 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 15,752 characters of Japanese script and 9,978 words as they appear on the page, of which 4,983 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.

• 雪の透く袖鈴木鼓村Rare kanji3,151 characters · 582 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Many of the kanji are outside the common 常用漢字 set, and the sentences run long. Slow going even with a big vocabulary.

  • How much of the page is kanji41% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run138 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught3.8 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list11% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
  • How often the words are uncommon13% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 21% of this band

  Its 501 different kanji, by when they are taught

  67%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  22%

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

  11%

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

  Counted over the 501 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 95% of those 501 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 2,893 characters of Japanese script and 1,825 words as they appear on the page, of which 1,002 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.

• 死生幸徳秋水Rare kanji9,648 characters · 1,322 distinct words
  How this is counted

  Many of the kanji are outside the common 常用漢字 set, and the sentences run long. Slow going even with a big vocabulary.

  • How much of the page is kanji46% of the script on the page · 24% of this band
  • How long the sentences run121 characters per sentence · 20% of this band
  • How late those kanji are taught4.2 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 24% of this band
  • Kanji outside the common list12% 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 · 21% of this band

  Its 910 different kanji, by when they are taught

  62%

  Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.

  26%

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

  12%

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

  Counted over the 910 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 94% of those 910 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 8,956 characters of Japanese script and 5,966 words as they appear on the page, of which 3,470 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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