Yomu

Read Japanese; your reading clears your reviews.

A dictionary and spaced repetition built into the book. Tap a word to learn it; every page you read after that is the review.

THE READER

A page, and almost nothing else.

Vertical or horizontal, three furigana modes. At rest there is the page, one hairline for how far in you are, and the way out.

はで。は。でたかとがぬ。

でもたでてただけはて。

はでてとをた。でとはとでなでただ。

吾輩は猫である · 夏目漱石p. 74 / ~218

REVIEWS

Most of your reviews happen while you read.

A word you carded turns up again forty pages on. That counts as the review; what the book did not bring back is a short queue.

吾輩はここで始めて人間というものを見た。しかも後で聞くとそれは書生という人間中で一番獰悪な種族であったそうだ。この書生というのは時々我々を捕えて煮て食うという話である。

書生, met again on p. 114counted as a review

書生

しょせい

a student boarding in someone’s house

the same word, on a day the book did not bring it back

Not taken on trust: Yomu spot-checks a few of its own credits with a quick question as you read, and takes back any that fail.

TODAY

Your words turn up in the morning’s news.

Short news pieces arrive through the day; when one uses a word you carded, Today shows it beside the headline, and the article is a page you can read.

in today’s news

警戒けいかい

vigilance; caution; being watchful

九州南部で線状降水帯 気象庁「記録的な大雨に警戒を」

carded yesterday · not asked yet · met once while reading

BOOKS

What can I read next?

Every band below is arithmetic you can open — how much of the page is kanji, how long the sentences run, how far past the common words the vocabulary reaches. Signed in, your own share of each book sits on its row: the words you have marked known, counted against the book, not a guess at a vocabulary size.

  • 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.

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