Fact or Fiction Friday on the Chinese Language

Fact or Fiction Friday on the Chinese Language
March 27, 2015

Happy Friday! Today’s trivia question is has two parts: There are 2,000 characters in the Chinese language. You’ll need to know about 600 to read a newspaper. Do you think this is Fact? or Fiction?

 

There are 2,000 characters in the Chinese language. You’ll need to know about 600 to read a newspaper. Fact? or Fiction?

 

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INGCO International

 

There are 50,000 characters in the Chinese language!  You’ll need to know about 2,000 to read a newspaper!

Visit the following site to see the most common Chinese characters : http://www.commonchinesecharacters.com/Lists/MostCommon2500ChineseCharacters

We’ll see you next week for another Fact or Fiction Friday!