{"id":5231,"date":"2019-10-22T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/learn-chinese-how-many-chinese-characters-are-there\/"},"modified":"2019-10-22T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:29:09","slug":"learn-chinese-how-many-chinese-characters-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/learn-chinese-how-many-chinese-characters-are-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Chinese &#8211; How Many Chinese Characters Are There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;In order to learn Chinese, you have to learn many characters. But how many do you need to learn? Well, I have to say the answer varies from case to case. Chinese is the oldest written language and it has undergone 3 major transformations. The simplification movement was the third change and it gave the written language its final look.<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  According to the Chart of Generally Utilized Characters of Modern Chinese, the number of existing characters is 7,000. Is it a high number? You will be shocked when you find the Great Compendium of Chinese Characters defines the existence of 54,678 characters. Luckily, the Chart of Common Characters of Modern Chinese o<em><\/em>nly includes 3500 characters. In fact, you o<em><\/em>nly need to know 2600 characters to pass HSK exam at the highest level.<br \/>  &nbsp;<br \/>  Do you want to learn Chinese calligraphy? It is the art of writing and o<em><\/em>nly a culture as rich as China&#8217;s is able to develop a written language both beautiful in its co<em><\/em>ntent and in its form.<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-4013045386\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;In order to learn Chinese, you have to learn many characters. But how many do you need to learn? Well,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2835,2853],"tags":[58,118,150,572],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-dialogue","category-spoken-chinese","tag-chinese-characters","tag-culture","tag-learn-chinese","tag-want-to-learn-chinese"],"views":233,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}