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How hard is かがみの孤城 to read?
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
By 辻村深月 · In Japanese
- Words for 95% of the text
- 4,832
- Sentence length
- 12.9 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 48 per 1,000
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This is a beginner-level book to read in Japanese. Its sentences are short and about a quarter of the text is dialogue, so the story moves along in plain, everyday language. The vocabulary sits at the second-highest JLPT level, with school words (学期, 制服, 学年) and verbs describing gestures and feelings (頷く, 呟く, 見開く) coming up again and again. It suits a reader who is comfortable with simple novels and wants a contemporary story about schoolchildren.
MnemoRead measured this book from its full text: how many of the language's most common words you need to follow it, and how long its sentences are.
How hard this book is
Easier than 99% of our Japanese books
The score rises with the words needed to cover 95% of the text and with sentence length. It is the same in every language. Books within about ten points of each other read about as hard.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 4,832
- Sentence length
- 12.9 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 26 words
- Length
- Novel
- 148,964 words · 8+ hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 48 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 27%
- Kanji among the characters
- 24%
Vocabulary needed
Share of the text covered by the most common words of the language.
Names of people and places count as known words.
Show the numbers
| Most common words | Share of the text |
|---|---|
| 100 | 66.4% |
| 250 | 74.9% |
| 500 | 82.3% |
| 1,000 | 86.1% |
| 2,000 | 91.0% |
| 3,000 | 92.9% |
| 5,000 | 95.2% |
| 7,500 | 96.7% |
| 10,000 | 97.4% |
| 15,000 | 98.4% |
| 20,000 | 98.9% |
| 30,000 | 99.4% |
JLPT word lists
Share of the text each level's words cover, with the levels below it. N5 and N4 are the textbook lists; N3 to N1 are the words common in the novels learners grade at that level. No list covers a whole novel: literary and rare words lie outside it. The book's vocabulary is rated at the first level that covers nearly all of what the whole list covers (98.5%).
JLPT kanji
Words to learn first
The words this book uses most that are not among the 5,000 most common of the language, with how often each appears.
- 頷く×106
- 呟く×56
- 学期×56
- 口調×46
- 制服×44
- 見開く×44
- 気まずい×41
- はっと×40
- 微か×35
- 食堂×35
- 頭巾×34
- 広間×33
- 気配×33
- 学年×30
- 戸惑う×26
- 咄嗟×25
- 始業×25
- 不意×24
- パラレル×23
- 絵本×23
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