How many Chinese characters are there?

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How many Chinese characters are there? How many characters do we need to know to read Chinese texts? I will answer it in today's China in a Nutshell!

Repository with various texts and a character counting script: https://github.com/sicin/licznik_znakow
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00:00 Introduction
00:16 What Is Wikipedia Saying?
01:18 How Many Characters Are There?
02:46 Can We Read the Old Texts?
03:42 How Many Characters Do We Need?
06:30 Chinese Illiterates
07:30 Ending