Basic Research on the Ability of 2100 Kanji to Generate Kanji Compounds

• TOKUHIRO Yasuyo

  Waseda University

• KAWAMURA Yoshiko

  Tokyo International University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 漢字の造語能力に関する基礎調査

Abstract

Japanese language educators face the task of choosing which kanji to teach and at what level of proficiency to introduce each kanji. In this presentation, we report a survey on the ability of each kanji in the 2100 Kanji List ranked by degree of familiarity and frequency to make kanji compounds. Our analysis of 15,000 compounds shows that many of the top-ranked kanji by familiarity and frequency have a high capacity to generate kanji compounds. We suggest that it is insufficient to teach these kanji just at the primary level, and that both the compounds containing these kanji and the ways that the compounds are generated and the resulting meanings should also be explicitly taught at the intermediate and advanced levels.

Journal

• The journal of Japanese Language Education Methods

  The journal of Japanese Language Education Methods 13 (2), 16-17, 2006

  Japanese Language Education Methods

Keywords

• 漢字語彙
• 造語能力
• 親密度
• 頻度
• 漢字2100

Details

• CRID: 1390282680757413376
• NII Article ID: 110009497072
• DOI: 10.19022/jlem.13.2_16
• ISSN: 24239909
• ISSN: 18813968
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed