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The largest Chinese dictionary, the Zhonghua Zihai, is a collection of individual characters. How many does it contain?
85,568
characters
The Zhonghua Zihai catalogues 85,568 Chinese characters — full literacy in China needs only about 3,000 of them.SOURCEZhonghua Zihai (1994)
Scale check: 85,568 is roughly a lower-league football crowd.
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