Sequencing kanji based on amount of associated vocabulary

Okay, so here’s my problem…

I’m working on a kanji project that could really make use of WaniKani’s pre-made vocabulary lists associated with individual kanji characters. I was wondering if there was a way to sequence/categorize each kanji in WaniKani based on the number of vocal terms associated with it. I would just manually go through all 2200 characters, but I figured someone knew some rad computer tricks to do it automatically or even already have it completed.

I just need numbers––not a list of vocabulary terms per se. I want to compare and chart which kanji characters tend to be used in common words than others.

Thanks so much! This would REALLY help me. :slight_smile:

I have that data, shouldn’t be a problem.

You want something like 騎 → 4 for all kanji, right?

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Yes please!!

If it could be ordered highest to lowest (or vice versa), that would be even more amazing! :smiley:

Edit: deleted 〜, ー

This is “appearances in WK vocab”: list of kanji

91: 人
69: 大
68: 一
63: 日
51: 不
50: 気
44: 学者
43: 生物
42: 子
40: 中
39: 年
38: 手
36: 自
35: 地
34: 出水
32: 入
31: 々会金
30: 行国事的無
29: 本理
28: 外
27: 見
26: 力心悪感
25: 文回合動
24: 二下上月分書
23: 名主時場定
22: 作体道電度意
21: 用語
20: 全明所業
19: 目方来食通間楽新発
18: 立先車字県指器
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0: 梓莉遼菅瑠駿璃輔哉茜諒綾蒼漣乃亮瑛

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I am forever in your debt. 感謝‼︎

Ah, quick question. What does 「〜」indicate?

Hmm nothing, I needed to filter out katakana, numbers, etc. maybe I missed some things.

This is from “〜人”: “number of people, people, people counter” and the like.

Ah, I see. Thank you!! With all of this information, I think I can safely ignore that category then. :slight_smile:

There is also a long vowel mark ー left at 7 count.

Maybe someone is interested in the opposite as well :smile:

592: る
253: す
238: い
103: り
94: し
91: く
76: れ
73: う
64: きむえ
60: 〜
58: めけ
42: か
36: ら
35: み
34: にお
32: ま
31: つ
22: が
20: さげて
19: な
18: の
17: わちぐ
16: ん
15: ぶ
14: じ
12: びや
11: たせず
9: ご
8: べぎで
7: スーこば
6: ろもゴっ
5: ンねルと
4: メぼミ
3: フラアリはトゃをム
2: カビ1ぜだハイそバモッ
1: ふシ20ぬづペガギざゲジャよチクボタぱゆベプエェコヒ

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Aaand there are also a few kanji without vocab as well:

0: 梓莉遼菅瑠駿璃輔哉茜諒綾蒼漣乃亮瑛

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Wait, why are both 瑠 and 璃 without a word when just putting them together MAKES a word? (瑠璃)
Is the WK team planning to add more words in the near future?

Nice, I regretted not making a list of these when I ran into them - I keep failing this burns, so I’ve been wanting to make my own vocab for these… Thanks for this

You might try

I have just built a list from NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary. You might find it useful, and it might be better than the vocab list above:

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Queue the people whining that there are too many useless words in WK :wink:

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Well, people do complain about that. But again, WK is a kanji learning tool, not a vocab learning tool.
(Not that we need to have that conversation yet again)

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