approximately 650
Around or over 50,000 characters exist in the Chinese language.
About 30
There are 33 letters in the Russian Alphabet. А Б В Г Д Е Ё Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я
Collectively there are over 40,000 characters in the Chinese language but less than a quarter of them are used by even today's Chinese intellectuals.
Approximately 47 thousand.
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