There're about 7,000 commonly used characters in Chinese, while the whole is about 90,000 including the complicated forms and those barely used.
Around or over 50,000 characters exist in the Chinese language.
There are over 50,000 characters in the Chinese language, but the language itself does not have an alphabet made up of individual letters like the English language. Instead, Chinese characters are used to represent words or parts of words.
Many Asian cultures were influenced by China. Japan is no exception. Before Japan's introduction to Chinese, they had no writing system. So Japan eventually adapted, as well as changed, the Chinese language, which explains why many Chinese characters are still used in the Japanese language. Also, a section of the modern Japanese language called 'kanji' consists of Chinese characters. == ==
About 100,000 chatacters, but the character used in daily life are about 3,500.
There are thousands of characters in Mandarin Chinese, but a common estimate is around 20,000 characters. However, you only need to know around 3,000 characters to read a Chinese newspaper.
The Chinese language is written in characters, not "letters" as in English. If you're asking about how many different characters there are in the Chinese language, Wikipedia states that as of 2004, the latest Chinese dictionary has 106,230 characters, and sometimes, one character may have multiple meanings when used in different contexts.
There are many different iphone and ipad apps that teach Chinese. The common ones are I Learn Chinese - Read and Write Characters, Chinese Writer for iPad, MagiChinese and KTdict C-E (Chinese-English dictionary).
There are more than 80,000 Chinese words in the Chinese vocabulary. You however need to master only around 3,000 characters to be conversant in the language.
There are over 50,000 Chinese characters, but the language itself consists of about 13,000 commonly used characters. Each character can represent a word, a syllable, or a concept.
Many other Asian countries use Chinese characters. One is Japan (although they have both a syllabary and an alphabet that they use too).
Mandarin Chinese is the most common, most popular dialect of Chinese. Chinese is written in characters, with unique strokes to form a word. There are eight different stroke types. There are traditional and simplified characters. Simplified characters are not as complex as the earlier traditional characters, with a lesser amount of strokes. Chinese characters originally were modeled after animals, people, or other tangible objects. Many still resemble these things. For a visual, a simple google images search on Chinese Characters will provide a multitude of examples.This is how we write I love you in Chinese For example:我愛你 is I love you.
Many other Asian countries use Chinese characters. One is Japan (although they have both a syllabary and an alphabet that they use too).