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For basic reading and writing of modern Chinese, you only need know 2500 most frequently used characters. The coverage rates of the most frequently used Chinese characters is 98.0%. Therefore, the 3,500 frequently used characters will enable you to understand almost all the content in nowadays Chinese publications.

The following is a list of 2500 commonly used Chinese characters. You will learn how to read and writing a character after you click it.

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