Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Chinese II Word Search

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!

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