The Chinese have 2,600 !!!! characters in their alphabet.
A well-educated Chinese reader today recognizes approximately 4,000–6,000 characters; approximately 3,000 characters are required to read a Mainland newspaper. The PRC government defines literacy amongst workers as a knowledge of 2,000 characters, though this would be only functional literacy. A large unabridged dictionary, like the Kangxi Dictionary, contains over 40,000 characters, including obscure, variant, rare, and archaic characters; fewer than a quarter of these characters are now commonly used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language
2,600?
That’s just the simplified form isn’t it?
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2,600! We don’t have that many characters here... close, but still....