先生の顔
竹久夢二 · 2,852 characters · 60 paragraphs
HOW HARD THE WRITING IS
School kanji
Nearly all the kanji are ones taught in primary school, and the sentences stay short enough to hold in your head.
How this is counted
Nearly all the kanji are ones taught in primary school, and the sentences stay short enough to hold in your head.
- How much of the page is kanji30% of the script on the page · 23% of this band
- How long the sentences run23 characters per sentence · 19% of this band
- How late those kanji are taught2.6 on a 1–8 scale of school year, where 7 is the rest of the common list and 8 is outside it · 23% of this band
- Kanji outside the common list5% of the distinct kanji · 12% of this band
- How often the words are uncommon4% of the words the corpus ranked sit past the common bands, counting the middle bands as half · 22% of this band
Its 249 different kanji, by when they are taught
- 79%
- Taught in primary school — the 教育漢字.
- 16%
- Taught later at school — the rest of 常用漢字.
- 5%
- Not on the common list — name characters, and characters outside 常用漢字 altogether.
Counted over the 249 different characters the book uses, each once — not over how often you meet them, so a character used once weighs the same as one used on every page. The five bars higher up count kanji two different ways: “How late those kanji are taught” counts every appearance, so the characters on every page weigh most, while “Kanji outside the common list” is the last figure in this chart, counted the same each-character-once way. The published list placed 99% of those 249 characters. The rest are counted as outside 常用漢字, which is what absence means in a complete list — so the smaller that figure, the more of this chart is the list's gaps rather than the book's.
Counted over 2,614 characters of Japanese script and 1,660 words as they appear on the page, of which 940 appear in the frequency list behind this. The rest are not counted rather than rare: the list only reaches so far.
Tatoeba Japanese sentence export (tatoeba-jpn): 32980 lexemes over 2497247 counted words. Short, learner-contributed conversational sentences, largely translated from English. Not prose.
Which kanji it uses was judged against a published list of 2,999 characters and the school year each one is taught in. “The common list” above is 常用漢字, the characters Japanese schooling covers; a character the list places outside those school years — a name character, or one it does not carry at all — counts as outside it. “How late those kanji are taught” counts every time a character appears, so the characters on every page weigh most; “Kanji outside the common list” counts each different character once, however often the book uses it.
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WHAT THESE NUMBERS ARE COUNTED OVER
Counted over 1,660 word occurrences that resolve to a dictionary entry, 86% of everything the parser found in this text. The rest is punctuation, numerals and names, which have no dictionary entry to know. A compound like 高校生 is counted as its parts, because that is how it is carded.
FIRST LINES
それは火曜日の地理の時間でした。 森先生は教壇の上から、葉子が附図の蔭にかくれて、ノートへ戯書をしているのを見つけた。 「葉子さん、そのノートを持ってここへお出でなさい」不意に森先生が仰有ったので、葉子はびっくりした。 葉子は日頃から成績の…
WHERE THIS TEXT CAME FROM
Transcribed and proofread by volunteers at 青空文庫, and reproduced here under the terms of its 図書カード, which records the edition this was set from and who checked it.
There is no “how much you would know at 2,000 words” figure yet: nothing here counts a book against a size of vocabulary, and a guess would be worse than the gap.