An Introduction to The National Language Research Institute: A Sketch of its Achievements
Third Edition(1988)/ HTML Version(1997)

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II.3.5 The Use of Written Forms in Japanese Cultural Reviews

(Report 19, 1960. 55 pages)
This is a report of the use of written forms in cultural reviews. We surveyed about 117,000 running words, drawn from the sample used for the above-mentioned word count. The contents of the report are as follows: 1) A list of some 700 words which occurred frequently in two or more variant ways of writing. 2) A table of the frequency distribution of Chinese characters (presented here in condensed form). Frequency Different Running in our Sample Characters Characters 1-8 1,364 49.0% 4,012 3.4% 9- 1,417 51.0 113,137 96.6 Total 2,781 100.0 117,149 100.0 3) A frequency table of the above 1,417 Chinese characters classified by their on and kun reading. 4) A frequency table of 88 Chinese characters not occurring in the List of the To~yo~ Kanzi (the Daily-use Chinese Characters) noted in our sample with all their uses. 5) An index to the Daily-use Chinese Characters. The survey on cultural reviews was carried out cooperatively by HAYASI Oki, NAGANO Masaru, SAIGA Hideo, MIZUTANI Sizuo and ISIWATA Tosio.

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