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Originally Posted by Janissary
I installed the lang. pack (East Asian Lang.)
It costs around 250mb space... say, how many letters that kanji has, 80k?
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The biggest Japanese compilation of kanji contains about 50,000 characters. However, the vast majority of them are archaic and/or hardly used at all. There are several standards for kanji counts. The standard needed for "general use", as they call it, is just under 2,000 kanji. Learning these 2,000 kanji would make you considered literate in Japanese (assuming you know all readings for these kanji as well as Japanese vocabulary). There are, however, a lot more kanji needed to delve into specific topics (such as medicine, industry, sciences, etc).