[kanjiheatmap.com] Visualize WK Frequency Rankings - More common Kanji appear brighter, rarer ones duller

[mithi]

I just thought I’d share this.

I’ve always been curious about kanji frequency usage given various data sets (netflix, google, twitter), so decided to build this visualization. Just sharing in case other people might find it interesting.

You can try it out here

Kanji Heatmap

Make sure you sort by wanikani level

Cumulative usage vs frequency rank

[mithi]

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[Marifly]

This is really interesting! Thank you!

[mithi]

Glad you like it

[mithi]

I graphed the cumulative usage of kanji across various public datasets (twitter, netflix, wikipedia) and it turns out that 80 to 90 percent of the kanji you see in the wild is made up of the first 1000 most common kanji..

View the graph here: Kanji Heatmap