07-08-2008, 02:26 AM
The Wikipedia article you quoted from doesn't say 80,000 more than the Daikanwa dictionary. It just says 80,000+ characters, in comparison to the 50,000 character Daikanwa. It's unreasonable to say any characters beyond the Daikanwa dictionary are Kanji, since they're only used in China. I can't imagine they were even given a proper Japanese pronunciation in the same way that they did with the other Sino-Japanese borrowings.
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