1983/09/13
CharactersCharacter count228,535
Word count102,489
Unique words · 4,268 once
8,939 Unique kanji · 287 once
1,576 Difficulty Hard
Volumes27
RatingExternal Rating
79 %One day, a wanderer appears out of the wasteland to bring justice to the guilty and hope to the people—a warrior named Ken, a man who bears seven scars upon his chest and holds the secret of a mysterious martial art known as Hokuto Shinken, the Divine Fist of the North Star! (Source: VIZ Media)
Genres
Action
Drama
Sci-Fi
Tags
Male Protagonist
Apocalypse
Martial Arts
Shounen
Tragedy
Gore
Gangs
Male Cast
Adult Cast
Magic
Philosophy
Disability
Desert
Nudity
SourcesAnilist
Japanese study overview
Hokuto no Ken is a Japanese manga of 228,535 characters, with 8,939 unique words and 1,576 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,939 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 拳fist×1,057
- 男man×523
- 北斗the Big Dipper (asterism)×515
- 様Mr×407
- 神god×336
- 死ぬto die×293
- 巻roll (e.g. of cloth)×249
- 殺すto kill×241
- 血blood×218
- 女woman×206
- 死death×203
- 今now×196
- 南斗Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)×161
- 巻Kan×90
- 琉Kohaku×86
- 原哲夫Hara Tetsuo (1961.9.2-)×82
- 天帝Shangdi (supreme deity in ancient Chinese religion)×79
- 武論尊Buronson (1947.6.16-)×76
- 秘孔vital point×76
- 宗家head of family×70