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The frequency list is derived from the 47,035 characters in the Chinese language. The Jōyō frequency is from the set of 2,136 Jōyō kanji. [1] Top 25% means that this radical represents 25% of Jōyō kanji. Top 50% means that this radical plus the Top 25% represent 50% of Jōyō kanji.
The list is sorted by Japanese reading (on'yomi in katakana, then kun'yomi in hiragana), in accordance with the ordering in the official Jōyō table. This list does not include characters that were present in older versions of the list but have since been removed ( 勺 , 銑 , 脹 , 錘 , 匁 ).
This is a simplified list, so the reading of the radical is only given if the kanji is used on its own. Example kanji for each radical are all jōyō kanji , but some examples show all jōyō (ordered by stroke number) while others were from the Chinese radicals page with non-jōyō (and Chinese-only) characters removed.
The SKIP method encodes Kanji into four main categories: Left-Right, Up-Down, Enclosure, and Whole; and then by stroke count (or by subtype of the Whole category). The SKIP method used by The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary is an original system for indexing kanji, meant to be accessible to those who have no prior knowledge of them.
This list included 881 "basic requirement" kanji for elementary school. 1981: The 1,945 characters of jōyō kanji were adopted, replacing the list of tōyō kanji. [2] 2010: The list was revised on 30 November to include an additional 196 characters and remove 5 characters (勺, 銑, 脹, 錘, and 匁), for a total of 2,136.
This page would be easier to organize and navigate if uncommon kanji are kept in a separate list. I feel that the place of such characters is in a separate page, like List of non-jōyō kanji by stroke count. There are over 12000 known kanji and most of them are scarcely, if ever used in modern written text. It would be rather pointless to ...
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