Chihaya is a girl in the sixth grade, still not old enough to even know the meaning of the word zeal. But one day, she meets Arata, a transfer student from rural Fukui prefecture. Though docile and quiet, he has an unexpected skill: his ability to play competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game. Chihaya is struck by his obsession with the game, along with his ability to pick out the right card and swipe it away before any of his opponents. However, Arata is transfixed by her as well, all because of her unbelievable natural talent for the game. Don't miss this story of adolescent lives and emotions playing out in the most dramatic of ways! (Source: Kodansha USA) Notes: - It won the 2nd Manga Taisho Award and the 35th annual Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shoujo. - It was nominated for the 20th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2016.
Japanese study overview
Chihayafuru is a Japanese manga of 829,819 characters, with 20,055 unique words and 2,186 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 20,055 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.
- 千早Chisa×1,950
- 私I×1,506
- 新new×1,273
- 試合match×1,000
- 取るto take×984
- 思うto think×983
- 先生teacher×983
- 言うto say×948
- 綾瀬Ayase×916
- 勝つto win×860
- 札banknote×831
- 名人master×803
- 太一Taiichi×769
- 真島Mashima×691
- Ａ級class-A×554
- 暢Itaru×547
- 瑞沢Zuisawa×527
- 詩song×480
- 自陣one's own ground×277
- 競技かるたcompetitive karuta×253