The
Chinese writing system has undergone more than five thousand years of evolution and transformation, which has brought with it new sinograms and variants. While some
dictionaries can list more than 80,000 characters
(85,568 for 中华字海 Zhōnghuà Zìhǎi, published in 1994 and up to 106,230 for 异体字字典 Yìtǐzì Zìdiǎn published in 2004), most dictionaries include between 5,000 and 6,000 characters.
Even in the latter case, just as most English speakers do not master all the words in the latest version of the Oxford dictionary, only 3,000 to 4,000 Chinese characters are actually in common use.
There is a question that comes up a lot when we talk about learning Chinese: how many characters is it necessary to learn? And more generally, how many characters are there? Here are some of the answers.
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You are practically unable to read and write without a computer, I can read all Spanish words
So your literaccy rate is crap