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28 mai 2017

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How many kanji does a regular Japanese person know?

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catsland
28 mai 2017

  • País ou região JAPÃO

4000-5000.

akss
28 mai 2017

  • País ou região JAPÃO

I can probably read and understand 4000-5000 kanji
But I think I can write about half of them

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kinoseijin
28 mai 2017

  • País ou região CANADÁ

Nobody knows the answer to this, partly because it varies widely depending on how much (and what kind of) education a person has, and—more importantly—depending on how you count the kanji. For example, there are kanji that have old forms and new forms; sometimes these forms are quite different, but often they are so similar they are easy to guess: 学 is the new form of 學, for example. You don't have to study the latter in school to "know" it—most (all?) people recognize 學 as 学 without even thinking about it. So are 学 and 學 two kanji or one? If you count them as two, then the average Japanese will "know" quite a large number of kanji.
On the other hand, almost all Japanese know many kanji that are not on the standard Jōyō kanji list (the list of about 2000 kanji that are taught in school, and that newspapers use)—for example, simple kanji like 苺 (ichigo, "strawberry"), or others like 蟹 (kani, "crab"). I'd be surprised to meet a Japanese person who doesn't know these kanji.
One article I read said the average university-educated Japanese knows 3300 kanji, but of course it doesn't say what it counts as "one kanji". Then there's the issue of being able to *read* a kanji versus being able to *write* it ... reading's much easier than writing.

Rodrigo_Massaki
28 mai 2017

  • País ou região BRASIL

joyou kanji

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Deleted user
28 mai 2017

I found an article “How many kanji do you know enough for everyday life?”

The National Cultural Affairs Division”文化庁国語課” announced the results of "Kanji Frequency Number Survey/漢字頻度数調査" in 2000.

There were a total of 33.3 million kanji in 385 books issued by a major publishing company. Except for duplication, they have 8474 kanji in them. However you can understand 99% if you know the top 2457 kanjis. And you can understand 99.9% if you memorize 4208 kanjis.

I know that the above sentences are super wired. But you would like to know these information, sorry.

上記の調査は非常に特殊な固有名詞や、学術用語なども含まれてるそうです。ですから2500字くらい知っていれば十分かもしれません。

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