how many chinese characters do i need to learn?
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NinchaneseChinese learning made adorable and effectiveHOW MANY CHINESE CHARACTERS DO YOU
NEED TO LEARN?
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How many characters are there
in Chinese?
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How many do you need to know to be considered fluent?
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That’s a lot of questions...…you have when you start learning Chinese
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Let’s try to answer all thesewise questions!
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How many charactersexist in Chinese?
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According to the“中华字海”
Zhonghua Zihai(the most famous Chinese dictionary)
This dictionarycontains old and recent characters
85,568 Chinese characters
And about 370,000 words
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How Many ChineseCharacters Do The
Chinese Know?
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The average Chinese knows about 4,500 characters
Well-educated Chinesepeople know about8,000 characters
About
5,000characters
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How Many CharactersAnd Words Do You Need
To Know?
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Why do you learn Chinese?
To travel to China?
+/- 1000 words to know
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To live in China?+/- 2500 words to know
To read newspapers?
+/- 3000 characters to know
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Want to pass the HSK test?
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Number of words you need to know to pass the HSK
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Should you start learning Chinesewith the most frequent words?
YES
Learn words according to theirfrequency
Knowing 1000 of the most frequent Chinesecharacters
= You understand 89% of a text
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The 11% unknowncharacters left
may contain the mostimportant words
The risk?
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TO SUM UP
85,568 existing
characters in Chinese
5,000characters
known by the average Chinese
1000 most frequent
characters=
89% of a text
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370,000words total in Chinese
Adjust your Chinese learning goal
Choose the right level
Mind the characters frequency
Master the Chinese characters!
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Start learning Chinese with Ninchanese now!
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