In the Chinese II class we researched how many characters are in the Chinese written language.
One student found 47,035 and another student found that a Chinese dictionary contains over 40,000 (both sourced Wikipedia). We also discovered that the average educated person knows only 6 t0 7 thousand of these characters and to read a newspaper, you need to know 3,000 characters!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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Hi Annie!
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