The Matchmakers

Drama
The Matchmakers
2023/10/30
Speech time
10h 3min
Word count68,880
Unique words
5,927
Unique kanji
1,639
Avg. sentence13.1
Speech speed
298
Difficulty Expert
Episodes16
Rating
65 %

Set during the Joseon Dynasty, the story of the meeting between the young widow Jung Soon-deok and young widower Shim Jung-woo as well as the struggle the two go through together to marry off the four young maidens who represent Joseon.

Genres
Comedy
Drama
Tags
Not Originally JP
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

The Matchmakers is a Japanese drama of 148,214 characters, with 5,927 unique words and 1,639 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.2 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 5,927 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
43min
Word count5,311
Unique words
1,480
Unique kanji
796
Avg. sentence13.4
Speech speed
316
Difficulty Expert

Episode 2

Speech time
45min
Word count5,429
Unique words
1,476
Unique kanji
790
Avg. sentence13.7
Speech speed
308
Difficulty Expert

Episode 3

Speech time
43min
Word count5,096
Unique words
1,352
Unique kanji
720
Avg. sentence13.4
Speech speed
300
Difficulty Expert

Episode 4

Speech time
43min
Word count4,983
Unique words
1,341
Unique kanji
718
Avg. sentence12.4
Speech speed
300
Difficulty Expert

Episode 5

Speech time
32min
Word count3,994
Unique words
1,154
Unique kanji
651
Avg. sentence13.3
Speech speed
301
Difficulty Expert

Episode 6

Speech time
42min
Word count4,901
Unique words
1,279
Unique kanji
701
Avg. sentence12.9
Speech speed
303
Difficulty Expert

Episode 7

Speech time
34min
Word count4,067
Unique words
1,168
Unique kanji
655
Avg. sentence12.8
Speech speed
307
Difficulty Expert

Episode 8

Speech time
38min
Word count4,163
Unique words
1,175
Unique kanji
679
Avg. sentence12.7
Speech speed
279
Difficulty Expert

Episode 9

Speech time
41min
Word count4,808
Unique words
1,149
Unique kanji
645
Avg. sentence13.3
Speech speed
303
Difficulty Hard

Episode 10

Speech time
33min
Word count3,631
Unique words
1,032
Unique kanji
622
Avg. sentence12.6
Speech speed
284
Difficulty Expert

Episode 11

Speech time
31min
Word count3,535
Unique words
949
Unique kanji
532
Avg. sentence12.1
Speech speed
290
Difficulty Expert

Episode 12

Speech time
32min
Word count3,664
Unique words
973
Unique kanji
567
Avg. sentence13.4
Speech speed
294
Difficulty Expert

Episode 13

Speech time
35min
Word count4,093
Unique words
989
Unique kanji
573
Avg. sentence13.9
Speech speed
297
Difficulty Expert

Episode 14

Speech time
37min
Word count4,167
Unique words
1,038
Unique kanji
593
Avg. sentence13.7
Speech speed
299
Difficulty Expert

Episode 15

Speech time
31min
Word count3,629
Unique words
915
Unique kanji
507
Avg. sentence13.6
Speech speed
309
Difficulty Expert

Episode 16

Speech time
34min
Word count3,409
Unique words
944
Unique kanji
551
Avg. sentence11.9
Speech speed
266
Difficulty Expert

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