Re: Table of kanji equivalents

[Darren Cook <darren@*********>]

> I have a list here:
> ...

Thanks, and for the other links.

>> I'm expecting such a list would have 3000+ entries to be useful.
> 
> Why is that?

Apparently the Asahi Shinbun corpus had 4,476 unique kanji; 2000 only
covers 99.72% of the uses, 3000 still only covers 99.97% frequency [1].
So I'm guessing most of that 0.28%, representing 2,476 kanji, could be
replaced with a simpler character and not lose any meaning.

And Kanji Kentei tests on "all 6355 kanji in levels 1 and 2 of JIS X
0208" [2]. Same reasoning - I'm assuming the large majority of those
will have a simpler equivalent. Even the ones only used for people's
names and place names.

Darren

[1]: From my notes; sorry, I don't have the original reference recorded.
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji_Kentei#Level_1

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