Wednesday, October 10, 2018

How many kanji do Japanese people know?



I am curious how many kanji a normal Japanese person is able to read. Since the Joyo kanji are learned by middle school, I assume that as a person goes through high school and university many more beyond the basic 2,000 are picked up.


For a typical 30-ish year old person in Tokyo with some university degree, how many kanji would he be able to read?


Furthermore, how often would he have to look up unknown kanji?




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