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Q: What's total number of Chinese characters, how many of them do average Chinese use?
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In traditional Chinese, there are about 80,000 different characters, but many are seldom used. Chinese Government came up with "Simplified Chinese" which has about 2,235 characters, but an educated Chinese may know from 3,000 to 5,000 characters in total.
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12 years 33 weeks ago
IMHO learning the most common 400 or so will get you through the majority of newspaper articles.
cooter:
An old post, I know. But that's a crock. I know 800+ and can't get very far.....
10 years 42 weeks ago
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12 years 33 weeks ago
oh only 400, yet image our alphabet has 26 Q_Q
dom87:
well words you have to learn in every language, so chinese.
chinese can read english, other people cant read chinese. Clearly an advantage
10 years 42 weeks ago
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