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Originally Posted by jesselt
There is something like 2500-3000 in use iirc (I don't know where 5000 came from, I've never heard of that many outside of Chinese)
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If my research proves correct, 'scholars' (take that as you will) in Japan do not only learn Japanese-language kanji. From what I can gather, it's like how in English, we take on Latin phrases for medicine, science, philosophy, etc. Although they are not actually English, we use them as if they were.