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converting Jpn chars to Eng words
Thread poster: dchild
dchild
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Japanese to English
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Oct 4, 2006

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows what the average conversion rate is between Japanese character counts to English word counts when going from J to E. Thanks.
 
conejo
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Japanese to English
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Howdy Oct 4, 2006

Hi. Usually it is 2 J=1 E: 1000 J chars = 500 E words.
Although it can be somewhat lower (as in less than 500 E words per 1000 J chars), depending on the field. A good rule is 2J=1E.
 
Anders Olsson (X)
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Or 2,5 Japanese characters=1 English word... Oct 4, 2006

...which is the conversion rate I use myself. I believe this is a quite common way to "convert" the count of Japanese characters to the number of English words.

[Edited at 2006-10-04 20:09]
 
Katalin Horváth McClure
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English to Hungarian
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There were numerous discussions on this already Oct 4, 2006

For quoting in target English wordcount, please see the following discussions:

http://www.pr... See more
For quoting in target English wordcount, please see the following discussions:

http://www.proz.com/post/301729#301729

http://www.proz.com/post/216296#216296

http://www.proz.com/post/92173#92173


I think the concensus for the conversion multiplier was 2.5, but see the posts because there are several issues to look at. ▲ Collapse
 
dchild
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Japanese to English
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TOPIC STARTER
thanks Oct 5, 2006

Thanks, all, for responses.
 
Corbett AM
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Ireland
Local time: 04:12
French to English
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Thank you from me also : ) May 17, 2012

I just came across this thread today. I am a newcomer to Japanese - English translation and I decided to browse on Proz. I wanted to know what I should charge per word and how to count the words in the first place so thanks everyone, especially Katalin who has been very informative
 


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