Originally posted by ninjin
I beg to differ.
The frequency of use for 俺 is 1946.
The frequency of use for 寸 is 1669.
匁 didn't have a frequency of use, so you might be quite right about that one!
source:
linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/euc/tty/dokanji?index=z&ivalue=240
linear.mv.com/cgi-bin/j-e/euc/tty/dokanji?index=z&ivalue=1372
Frankly I take those frequency of use numbers with a very big pinch
of salt.
Google may be unscientific and inaccurate but it is also a bang up to date source of 'in the wild' figures. It says :
俺+の 1,370,000 pages
寸+の 231,000 pages
匁+の 9,570 pages
Which matches my expectations from my Japanese reading.
(You need the の on a standard
www.google.com search to avoid Chinese
pages)
P.S. I have done some extensive work on a practical, if
unscientific 'frequency of use' based selection of kanji / words.
If you use Kanji Gold check out 'KG_Top6Words.zip' at
ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html
If you haven't tried Kanji Gold I recommend it.
Essentially it is based on the attempted inclusion of all kanji that
have a Japanese word (excluding proper names) in existence which have
more than 3,000 Google hits or a higher than 50 count in the
wordfreq_ck.gz file [Same archive based on examination of four years
of the Mainichi Shimbun.]