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Originally Posted by kirakira
大漢和辞典 has 50,000 characters and that I swear is a Japanese dictionary.
This is a total misconception. The equiv to 常用漢字 is around 2600 for Chinese, only around 500 more than the Japanese but you can subtract 100 from that since there is no kana and most characters only has 1 reading.
Technically, Japanese has more characters than Chinese because the Japanese created some new ones of their own which is never used in Chinese like 畑、峠、躾 etc.
Also Japanese is probably the most complicated way to be introduced to Chinese characters thanks to the limitless Kun readings assigned to those things.
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大漢和辞典 is for Japanese people to study ALL Kanji (including Chinese) characters. It does not mean Japanese people use 50,000 Kanji characters.
大漢和辞典 - Wikipedia