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jeff_lindqvist
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30 September 2008 at 3:49pm | IP Logged

If there was a person who knew all the characters, it would (sort of) imply that the number were finite, and since Chinese probably gets new words all the time (just as any other language), I'm quite sure that new characters are added.
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01 October 2008 at 2:00am | IP Logged

jeff_lindqvist wrote:

Not exactly. New words are usually formed by compounds of existing characters, I don't think there have been many new characters added to the language that were commonly recognized after the simplification in the PRC.

There are about 50,000 characters in total that have been used for the last 2500 years of recorded Chinese literature; most of them are archaic or variants of more common forms, I don't think anyone can honestly learn them all in addition to the compound words that they can form, nor would there be any need.

On a side note, no offence, polandboy, but your language count keeps increasing and yet your English doesn't exactly seem fluent, I think you're slightly overexaggerating your mastery of those languages?

Edited by amphises on 01 October 2008 at 2:01am
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01 October 2008 at 5:22am | IP Logged

Polandboy wrote:

I am not intending to know all of them...
I learning diligently.

Again, no offence, but perhaps you should list them under Learning instead, or just not list them at all. Fluency is a variable measure; I don't know about your other languages, but judging by your posts, your English grammar is at most intermediate.
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