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How many letters in Chinese?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Zero. Chinese uses ideograms that represent whole ideas rather than sounds. The largest Chinese dictionaries have over 50,000 characters, although most of these are obsolete or obscure variants of existing characters. In order to be literate in Chinese today, one has to know only a few thousand.

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