Walking on Thin Ice

Drama
Walking on Thin Ice
2025/09/20
Speech time
5h 44min
Word count32,933
Unique words
4,385
Unique kanji
1,237
Avg. sentence9.1
Speech speed
254
Difficulty Hard
Episodes12
Rating
67 %

Eun-soo is a housewife, who struggles to pay for her husband's medical expenses. He is terminally ill. Eun-soo becomes entangled in a bag of drugs with a teacher named Yi-kyeong. He is a mysterious figure. Eun-soo and Yi-kyeong are chased by veteran detective Tae-gu.

Genres
Drama
Mystery
Tags
Not Originally JP
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

Walking on Thin Ice is a Japanese drama of 77,280 characters, with 4,385 unique words and 1,237 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.3 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,385 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
33min
Word count3,043
Unique words
1,060
Unique kanji
568
Avg. sentence8.8
Speech speed
243
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
27min
Word count2,421
Unique words
848
Unique kanji
493
Avg. sentence8.1
Speech speed
227
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
32min
Word count3,201
Unique words
1,062
Unique kanji
556
Avg. sentence9.7
Speech speed
262
Difficulty Average

Episode 4

Speech time
28min
Word count2,546
Unique words
919
Unique kanji
539
Avg. sentence8.2
Speech speed
245
Difficulty Hard

Episode 5

Speech time
35min
Word count3,454
Unique words
1,072
Unique kanji
574
Avg. sentence9.7
Speech speed
256
Difficulty Hard

Episode 6

Speech time
23min
Word count2,292
Unique words
821
Unique kanji
473
Avg. sentence9.0
Speech speed
249
Difficulty Hard

Episode 7

Speech time
29min
Word count3,054
Unique words
983
Unique kanji
556
Avg. sentence9.4
Speech speed
278
Difficulty Hard

Episode 8

Speech time
29min
Word count3,026
Unique words
1,065
Unique kanji
583
Avg. sentence9.6
Speech speed
274
Difficulty Hard

Episode 9

Speech time
24min
Word count2,427
Unique words
842
Unique kanji
501
Avg. sentence9.4
Speech speed
264
Difficulty Hard

Episode 10

Speech time
22min
Word count2,051
Unique words
690
Unique kanji
422
Avg. sentence9.4
Speech speed
233
Difficulty Hard

Episode 11

Speech time
24min
Word count2,347
Unique words
779
Unique kanji
460
Avg. sentence9.6
Speech speed
246
Difficulty Hard

Episode 12

Speech time
31min
Word count3,071
Unique words
1,041
Unique kanji
596
Avg. sentence9.0
Speech speed
262
Difficulty Hard

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Vocabulary highlights

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