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Examples:
サイゴン
saigon
'Saigon'
バンコク
bankoku
'Bangkok'
ワシントン
wasinton
'Washington'
カンボジア
kanbozia
'Cambodia'
キング
kingu
'king'
コーニング
kooningu
'Corning'
"...one-fourth of all the characters used in modern Japanese occur in three-fourths of all the most frequently occurring words. This means that by concentrating on learning approximately 500 select characters, the student is assured of being able to read 75% of all the high-frequency words he will encounter in modern literature." - The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power.
