TY - JOUR
T1 - The regional distribution of Japanese kanji
AU - Sasahara, Hiroyuki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In Japan, kanji is generally thought to be used uniformly across the country. However, in reality, there are regional characteristics regarding the frequency of usage concerning specific kanji, the font, how they are read, their usage, and how the word is written. This paper focuses particularly on proper nouns, such as names of localities and families, to verify the types of spatial distributions that exist and examine the literature concerning their geographical and political phenomena and historical events that have occurred.
AB - In Japan, kanji is generally thought to be used uniformly across the country. However, in reality, there are regional characteristics regarding the frequency of usage concerning specific kanji, the font, how they are read, their usage, and how the word is written. This paper focuses particularly on proper nouns, such as names of localities and families, to verify the types of spatial distributions that exist and examine the literature concerning their geographical and political phenomena and historical events that have occurred.
KW - Center versus periphery
KW - dialect kanji
KW - geographical distribution
KW - Japanese original kanji (Kokuji, Waji)
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U2 - 10.1177/25138502211063632
DO - 10.1177/25138502211063632
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85125565033
SN - 2513-8510
JO - Journal of Chinese Writing Systems
JF - Journal of Chinese Writing Systems
ER -