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I consider November 11, 2010 the date I officially started to learn Japanese. However, I already wanted to learn Japanese when I was still discovering languages as a hobby, in December 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_j%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji
How difficult are kanji in terms of diversity of readings? Most kanji have exactly one onyomi and one kunyomi. A fair number have only one onyomi and no kunyomi.
Number of onyomi | Number of kunyomi | Number of kanji |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 928 |
1 | 0 | 603 |
1 | 2 | 177 |
2 | 1 | 159 |
2 | 2 | 64 |
2 | 0 | 60 |
1 | 3 | 31 |
0 | 1 | 30 |
2 | 3 | 21 |
3 | 1 | 18 |
3 | 2 | 8 |
1 | 4 | 7 |
3 | 0 | 5 |
2 | 4 | 5 |
3 | 3 | 4 |
2 | 5 | 3 |
0 | 2 | 3 |
5 | 1 | 2 |
1 | 5 | 2 |
2 | 6 | 2 |
4 | 2 | 1 |
3 | 5 | 1 |
4 | 3 | 1 |
5 | 2 | 1 |