rotterudamu 'Rotterdam' tibetto 'Tibet' sukottorando 'Scotland' bagudaddo 'Baghdad' yunaiteddo・suteetu・obu・amerika 'United States of America' batto 'bat' battaa 'batter' batterii 'battery'
"...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.
