Literary work Japanese reading statistics
How hard is 吾輩は猫である to read in Japanese?
Aggregate vocabulary, kanji, length, and reading-profile data from the DokiDokiDict recommender corpus.
吾輩は猫である
Japanese reading profile
This indexed edition contains 318,846 Japanese characters across 10,868 sentences. By length it is at approximately the 99th percentile of the 501 indexed literature. Its vocabulary breadth is at approximately the 99th percentile within the same group.
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