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How many Chinese characters do you need?
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lorinth
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14 May 2013 at 8:41pm | IP Logged

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I actually have little idea how many characters I know since I don't use Anki or
Heisig or what not. If I was forced to guess I'd say somewhere between 3000 and 3500.
It gets very hard to quantify at this level.

If you are interested, in my log I have mentioned two sites that can help you assess
the size of your vocabulary.

my log

If I remember well, ChineseLevel is for words only, while zhtoolkit works for both
words and characters.

In addition, there's Clavis Sinica, which evaluates characters specifically.

Clavis Sinica

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