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Japanese
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.
Phonetic components
| On reading | Characters | Exceptions |
|---|---|---|
| ぎ | 義議儀犠 | |
| きょう | 共供恭 | |
| こう | 工貢攻功江紅巧 | |
| こう | 構講購溝 | |
| ひ | 被皮彼疲披 | |
| ふく | 福幅副 | |
| ふく | 復腹複覆 | |
| へい | 丙柄 | 病(びょう) |
| ほう | 砲包抱胞飽泡 |
Kanji grouped by reading
Number of readings
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 | 43.45% |
| 1 | 0 | 603 | 28.23% |
| 1 | 2 | 177 | 8.29% |
| 2 | 1 | 159 | 7.44% |
| 2 | 2 | 64 | 3.0% |
| 2 | 0 | 60 | 2.81% |
| 1 | 3 | 31 | 1.45% |
| 0 | 1 | 30 | 1.4% |
| 2 | 3 | 21 | 0.98% |
| 3 | 1 | 18 | 0.84% |
| 3 | 2 | 8 | 0.37% |
| 1 | 4 | 7 | 0.33% |
| 3 | 0 | 5 | 0.23% |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | 0.23% |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | 0.19% |
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 0.14% |
| 0 | 2 | 3 | 0.14% |
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 0.09% |
| 1 | 5 | 2 | 0.09% |
| 2 | 6 | 2 | 0.09% |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.05% |
| 3 | 5 | 1 | 0.05% |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 0.05% |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 0.05% |
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