ボサール アントワーヌ   Antoine Bossard
  ボサール アントワーヌ
   所属   神奈川大学  情報学部 計算機科学科
    神奈川大学大学院  理学研究科 理学専攻(情報科学領域)
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2022/07
形態種別 学術雑誌
査読 査読あり
標題 Ontological and quantitative analyses of the kokuji characters of the Japanese writing system
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Journal of Chinese Writing Systems
掲載区分国外
巻・号・頁 6(2),pp.137-145
著者・共著者 A. Bossard
概要 [Full paper] [WoS IF=N/A, Scimago Q2]

Except its two kana syllabaries and the Latin alphabet, the Japanese writing system is mainly based on Chinese characters and local, made-in-Japan characters. While the former, called kanji characters, are ubiquitous in Japanese, the latter, called kokuji characters, remain largely unknown and thus infrequently used. It is then meaningful and interesting to investigate these local characters, and that in a global manner, that is considering them as a whole rather than focusing on particular instances such as often done in previous works. To this end, in this paper we first conduct a formal, ontological discussion of the kokuji characters so as to identify common properties and patterns, and second we realise a quantitative analysis thereof according to several criteria. The obtained results clearly exhibit trends, which are subsequently discussed.
DOI 10.1177/25138502211050962