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Originally Posted by jrocka83
There are over 150,000 cheracters in the kanji alphebet.
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Where'd ya get that number from? Even for Chinese, that's far-fetched. There are indeed tens of thousands of Kanji in Japanese, but the vast majority of them are archaic or obscure and never used in regular speech or writing. As Nyororin mentioned, the number of Kanji needed for literacy is about 2000. This is what the JLPT Level 1 tests for. These Kanji are defined by the Japanese Ministry of Education, and it's what all schoolchildren in Japan learn all the way from first grade to the end of high school.