Wednesday, January 31, 2024

How many Chinese characters were used to translate the Harry Potter book series into traditional Chinese?

ANSWER: Well, according to the video below, 1.7 million characters were used, and of those 4,026 were unique characters. So, to read the seven books of the Harry Potter series in traditional Chinese without a dictionary, you would need to know more than 4,000 characters.
So, how long would it take to read the Harry Potter series in Chinese?
ANSWER: Well, just to count to 1.7 million in English would take more than 472 hours if you could count 1 number every second. That is equivalent to about 19.7 days. So, it would take you more than 19 days to read the Harry Potter series in Chinese if you could read it at a rate of one character per second 24 hours a day for 19.7 days.
So, how long would it take me to read the Harry Potter series in traditional Chinese?
ANSWER: Well, just forever.