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HOW MANY CHINESE
CHARACTERS DO YOU
NEED TO LEARN?
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2.
TITRE
texte
How many
characters are there
in Chinese?
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3.
TEXTE
Texte
How many do you
need to know to be
considered fluent?
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4.
That’s a lot of questions...
…you have when you start learning Chinese
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5.
Let’s try to answer all these
wise questions!
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6.
How many characters
exist in Chinese?
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7.
According to the
“中华字海”
Zhonghua Zihai
(the most famous Chinese dictionary)
This dictionary
contains old and
recent characters
85,568Chinese characters
And about 370,000 words
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8.
How Many Chinese
Characters Do The
Chinese Know?
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9.
The average Chinese knows about
4,500 characters
Well-educated Chinese
people know about
8,000 characters
About
5,000
characters
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10.
How Many Characters
And Words Do You Need
To Know?
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11.
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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153 303
603
1201
2501
5014
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
HSK1 HSK2 HSK3 HSK4 HSK5 HSK6
Number of words you need to know to pass the HSK

13.
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Should you start learning Chinese
with the most frequent words?
YES

14.
Learn words according to their
frequency
Knowing 1000 of the most frequent Chinese
characters
=
You understand 89% of a text
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15.
The 11% unknown
characters left
may contain the most
important words
The risk?
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TO SUM UP
85,568
existing
characters in
Chinese
5,000
characters
known by the
average Chinese
1000
most frequent
characters
=
89% of a text
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370,000
words total
in Chinese

17.
Adjust your Chinese learning goal
Choose the right level
Mind the characters frequency
Master the Chinese characters!
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18.
Start learning Chinese with
Ninchanese now!
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