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分かる or わかる？ - iSoron - 2010-08-19
The numbers I have, coming from an analysis I did of a [small?] corpus of light novels [150 volumes, 20 authors, half a million sentences, proper stemming], are these:
わかる: 14178 hits (69.27%)
分かる: 4240 hits (20.72%)
分る: 93 hits (0.45%)
判る: 733 hits (3.58%)
解る: 1224 hits (5.98%)
分かる or わかる？ - Asriel - 2010-08-19
Frankly, I don't care about which is more common anymore.
I posted originally as an afterthought because, heck, I've seen googlefights before.
What I find weird is how people can search for the same things and get conflicting results. I'm not expecting them to be exactly the same, but if it changes a lot, which I find interesting. Case in point: 分かる with no quotes. I got 34 million, you got 252 million. That's over 7 times the amount I got.
I'm not sure what it is, but simple calculation errors just don't seem like it could make up for 218 million results.
分かる or わかる？ - kazelee - 2010-08-19
Yeah. Tru dat.
分かる or わかる？ - torokun - 2010-08-20
It's interesting. I'm with the other guy who said that you just don't see it in hiragana much. I would guess that it's more common in blogs. I can say though, that in Japan I do not see it just in hiragana much. I can't remember the last time I saw it that way.
I will say though that in everyday use I think the other two characters are _underused_, as people are lazy about choosing the right one. Writing would be clearer if people used the other characters more ...
分かる or わかる？ - -kiki- - 2010-11-16
I usually use 分かる only, by the way.