The mysterious popularity of 頃

Heya,

I like to sort my vocab decks by usage, to try and learn “most used words” first. As such, I’m very confused as to how (kei) made it so far up the list. All of its example sentences are only referring the “ancient chinese land area” meaning, and yet it’s supposed to be in the 600 most used words of all the different frequency categories ? Is there something I’m missing or is Ancient China just that popular in pop culture ? I blame the Apothecary Diaries.

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It’s the kanji for koro/goro ごろ (JLPT N4) | Bunpro

The specific vocab listing is probably taking the popularity from that without listing its more common usage

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And it looks like this 頃 (JLPT N5) | Bunpro is the correct vocab entry for ごろ

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Seems like the frequency listed are the same, so you’re probably right. It’s a bit of a bummer though, I hope there aren’t too many cases like this. In the meantine, I’m just gonna set chinese land measure 頃 as mastered so it stops showing up at least

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Did a bit of digging.
This word is getting removed from N2 as part of a Vocab Deck cleanup project we’re in the process of doing.

RE the frequency itself, this will also need cleaning up.
I’ve made a note of it

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Thank you for taking the time to look into this, looking forward to the deck revamp :eyes:

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Off-topic, but is there a estimated timeline for this? :eyes:

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I don’t like giving concrete dates, but I believe we’re in the final checking phase for the new lists.

Once that is done, uploading them will be instant.
Could be as early as 1 week!

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