| Copyright | (c) Colin Woodbury, 2015, 2016 |
|---|---|
| License | GPL3 |
| Maintainer | Colin Woodbury <colingw@gmail.com> |
| Safe Haskell | None |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
Data.Kanji.Types
Description
Types for this library. Note that typeclass instances for ByteStrings
are not provided, as pack garbles characters above 0xFF.
Documentation
Anything that can be transformed into a list of Kanji.
Minimal complete definition
Nothing
Methods
_Kanji :: Traversal' a Kanji Source
Traverse into this type to find 0 or more Kanji.
Despite what the Haddock documentation says, this is part of the minimal complete definition.
asKanji :: a -> [Kanji] Source
Transform this string type into a list of Kanji. The source string
and the resulting list might not have the same length, if there
were Char in the source that did not fall within the legal
UTF8 range for Kanji.
A single symbol of Kanji. Japanese Kanji were borrowed from China over several waves during the past millenium. Japan names 2136 of these as their standard set, with rarer characters being the domain of academia and esoteric writers.
Japanese has several Japan-only Kanji, including:
- 畑 (a type of rice field)
- 峠 (a narrow mountain pass)
- 働 (to do physical labour)
A Level or Kyuu (級) of Japanese Kanji ranking. There are 12 of these, from 10 to 1, including intermediate levels between 3 and 2, and 2 and 1.
Japanese students will typically have Level-5 ability by the time they finish elementary school. Level-5 accounts for 1006 characters.
By the end of middle school, they would have covered up to Level-3 (1607 Kanji) in their Japanese class curriculum.
While Level-2 (2136 Kanji) is considered "standard adult" ability, many adults could not pass the Level-2, or even the Level-Pre2 (1940 Kanji) exam without considerable study.
Level data for Kanji above Level-2 is currently not provided by this library.
A numeric representation of a Level.