Hey! I was very curious to see some data quantified and visualized. For example, I’d love to know the number of times こう is the reading for various characters, compared with every other reading. I’m imagining a bar graph or something with a huge stack of こうs, しょうs, and せいｓ on the left. I’d also lik…

mmmh there’s this work here: [image] Chart of Frequency of Kana used in WK Kanji readings WaniKani I read vargsvans’ great post shortly after I started my WK journey, and I found as I progressed that like them I was having increasing trouble with some of the kanji mnemoni…

Chart of Frequency of Kana used in WK Kanji readings I was interested to find that the combos (with little や、ゆ、よ）only occur singly / in first position, never in second… Wha? I’m confused by this. What about, like, 会社 (かいしゃ) or 神社 (じんじゃ)? I suppose they’re third mora here… but still final, not…

tx for answering your questions. i can’t really help but please have this [image] for no reason at all…

I can’t really read that but it looks like **** on a wall. And I think I see the word “smear”. Which is, I suppose, appropriate.

[bruh] it’s on my fingers too… it obviously says smeared ink tsssskkkk…

Here is some data on all of the current accepted readings of the wanikani kanji: こう : 59 しょう : 56 か : 40 かん : 40 し : 37 き : 35 そう : 32 とう : 31 せい : 31 けん : 27 せん : 26 さい : 25 しん : 25 きょう : 24 けい : 24 ちょう : 23 ひ : 23 ほう : 23 い : 23 ぼう : 23 じょう : 21 てい : 21 りょう : 20 はん : 20 こ …

[image] nathanface: I’m imagining a bar graph or something with a huge stack of こうs, しょうs, and せいｓ on the left. There are a few too many different readings for me to plot them all (a lot of kunyomi only appear once or twice anyway), but here’s a graph of the top 30 readings. Most of them are …

[image] smearedink: What about, like, 会社 (かいしゃ) or 神社 (じんじゃ)? The analysis was for single kanji, while your ‘example’ is for a vocab item of 2 kanji; 社 alone adheres to the finding : the combos (with little や、ゆ、よ）only occur singly / in first position, never in second…

alone kanji is 社（やしろorしゃ） in to first position this kanji for to: 社員(しゃいん),社会(しゃかい)

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saibaneko March 19, 2022, 5:32pm 2

mmmh there’s this work here:

but it’s by mora not by reading. am curious as well. let’s see if someone replies.

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