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by prewett 1745 days ago
More characters. I believe there are a mandated 2000 characters that learned in school and used by newspapers. I believe 3000 Chinese characters only gets to 97% and 5000 is still 99.44% [0]

[0] https://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/char/li...