The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild

Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by dvduval on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:42PM (#20721860)

Yes, I have been studying Chinese for about five years now and I can recognize about 2700 characters. Looking at this Japanese character set, I'm guessing I know 80% or so. I always act like charts like this.

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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by dwohnitmok on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:32AM (#20722063)

There's a significant number of Japanese-only or much more common in Japanese than in Chinese characters on there.

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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by jackklika on Saturday August 17, 2019 @12:43AM (#20722106)

I've noticed the same where I can understand the basics of a Japanese program if there's subtitles. But there are some oddities like 食 being used in a verb (as in 食べる) or 行 as to go. But you still have good context and can at least understand the topic in most cases.

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Re:The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kan... by wilsonthewhale on Saturday August 17, 2019 @01:25AM (#20722274)

knowing Cantonese helps here, as both the verbs you mention are still common verbs in modern Cantonese.

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