character density

Definitions

1. 1

   A measure of the number of characters that are represented in a specified unit of text…

   A measure of the number of characters that are represented in a specified unit of text stream.

   • The mean character density for the survey was 4060 characters per page. No recommendations on character density were found in the literature.
   • The printed destination line must have a minimum character height of 0.135 inch and a maximum character density of approximately 17 characters per inch.
2. 2

   The number of strokes required to form a Chinese character.

   • Based on the findings and research designs of relevant studies done in the past (cf. Jin, 2006; Ke, 1996; Ping, 2006; Xiao, 2002), the threshold of the character density in this study was set at 11 strokes.
   • With regards to this strand of research, Hayes (1987) finds that character recognition is independent of character density, whereas Chin (1973), whose data were collected from a different level of learning Chinese, reports the opposite.
   • Three studies investigating the effects of character density on L2 Chinese character production found that the more strokes a character has, the more difficult it is to reproduce by hand (Ke, 1996a; L. Liu, 2008; Y. Xiao, 2002).

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