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• 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.

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