Official standard defines around 8k characters in modern usage. I’d guesstimate native highly educated speaker recognizes maybe 6-7k at most. https://en.m.wiki

Official standard defines around 8k characters in modern usage. I’d guesstimate native highly educated speaker recognizes maybe 6-7k at most. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonly_Used_Standard_Chinese_Characters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonly_Used_Standa...