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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
いん  因咽姻
おく 億憶臆 意(い)
化花貨
かい 階皆楷諧
義議儀犠
きょう 共供恭
けん 験検険剣倹
けん 建健鍵
こう 工貢攻功江紅巧
こう 構講購溝
支枝肢 技(ぎ)
しん 神伸申紳
そう 層僧贈曾
そう 槽遭曹
ちゅう 中忠沖仲虫
ちゅう 注柱駐 主(しゅ), 住(じゅう)
ちょう 挑兆跳眺 桃(とう), 逃(とう)
てき 適敵摘滴
とう 頭登豆闘痘
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 onyomiNumber of kunyomiNumber 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%

See also: List of kanji by number of readings (UTF-8)

japanese.1347242496.txt.gz · Last modified: 2012/09/10 02:01 by monkeypuzzle