2025/03/12
CharactersCharacter count283,826
Word count130,389
Unique words · 5,734 once
12,775 Unique kanji · 324 once
2,292Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length21.8
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue31.3%
Duration
20 hRatingExternal Rating
86 %1934年上海。「魔都」と呼ばれるほど繁栄と悪徳を誇るこの地に成功を夢見て渡ってきた日本人の青年・吾郷次郎は、原田ユキヱと名乗る謎めいた女から極上の阿片と芥子の種を預かる。 次郎は上海を支配する青幇の一員である楊直に渡りをつけるが、これをきっかけに裏社会に深く踏み入っていく。行く先は栄光か、破滅か。 軍靴の響き絶えない大陸において、阿片売買による莫大な富と帝国の栄耀に群がり、灯火に惹き寄せられる蛾のように熱狂し、燃え尽きていった男たちの物語。
Japanese study overview
Shangai Hitoriga is a Japanese novel of 283,826 characters, with 12,775 unique words and 2,292 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 12,775 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 次郎second son×997
- 楊willow (any tree of genus Salix)×775
- 直soon×703
- 伊沢Isawa×496
- 上海Shanghai (China)×382
- 阿片opium×373
- 自分myself×329
- 板board×311
- 私I×309
- 老old age×307
- 青blue×303
- 者person×278
- 董Sumire×183
- 忠夫Atsuo×170
- 租界(foreign) concession (in China)×167
- 老大growing old×163
- 郭Kaku×152
- 日本軍military of the Empire of Japan×151
- 関東軍Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchukuo)×107
- 芥子opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)×104