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How Many Chinese Characters Exist?

Modern dictionaries for daily use include fewer characters. The widely used classical dictionary "Mathew's Chinese- English Dictionary" contains 7773 characters. With this vocabulary you can at least translate most texts used in textbooks. The "Neue Chinesisch- Deutsche Wörterbuch" (New Chinese- German Dictionary) contains about 6000 characters. Modern Chinese computer programs also comprise only a limited number of characters, about 6000 characters.

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