John Paul Grips on Nostr: >For effective everyday communication, a foundation of around 2,000 commonly used ...

>For effective everyday communication, a foundation of around 2,000 commonly used characters is often considered sufficient.
>Out of the 80,000+ Chinese characters that exist, a working knowledge of just 2,000-3,000 characters is considered a good foundation for literacy in Chinese, and equips the reader to understand approximately 97-99% of modern texts.