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Convenience Store Woman
By 村田沙耶香 · In Japanese
- Words for 95% of the text
- 6,053
- Sentence length
- 16.1 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 63 per 1,000
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In Japanese, Sayaka Murata's short novel about a long-serving convenience-store clerk sits at the intermediate level of our library. Its vocabulary reads at the second-highest JLPT level and its sentences are of middling length, some running long, while Keiko's plain, deadpan narration, a fair share of dialogue and a moderate kanji load keep it readable. Much of what there is to learn is the store's working vocabulary (the till, part-time shifts, the night shift, uniforms, restocking), which recurs all through the book, so it suits a reader who already gets through short modern stories with a dictionary at hand.
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 97% 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
- 6,053
- Sentence length
- 16.1 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 32 words
- Length
- Short
- 37,126 words · < 3 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 63 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 40%
- Kanji among the characters
- 27%
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 | 65.9% |
| 250 | 73.2% |
| 500 | 78.8% |
| 1,000 | 83.4% |
| 2,000 | 87.5% |
| 3,000 | 90.6% |
| 5,000 | 93.7% |
| 7,500 | 95.9% |
| 10,000 | 96.9% |
| 15,000 | 98.0% |
| 20,000 | 98.7% |
| 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.
- レジ×62
- アルバイト×42
- 制服×21
- 夜勤×20
- 縄文×18
- 頷く×18
- 空揚げ×15
- 叱る×14
- 義妹×14
- 売り場×12
- 言い訳×12
- 小鳥×11
- 干渉×11
- 店内×11
- 人手×10
- 服装×10
- 朝礼×10
- 補充×10
- ほっと×9
- 合理×9
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