if you learn 600 chinese characters, you can read 90% of chinese text 

it’s not that hard!

surgeon, technologist, writer, humanist. read.pourteaux.xyz 

Ah yes, person, mouth, stabby thing??? 😆
(I love how mouth and door are the same character)

It's been 8 years or so since I was in a majority Chinese speaking country, so I don't see those signs super often. Lots of Chinese businesses in my area though, and my kid goes to a Chinese immersion school.

haha i’m sure you see 人 口 出 etc everywhere

I feel like reading 90% of Chinese text is still going to leave some pretty big gaps 😅

I'm at maybe 100 characters and I still get really excited when I recognize a character in the wild.

The challenge with this reasoning is that the rarer characters carry more entropy so they contribute more to the meaning of the sentence.

You want to calculate cumulative fraction weighted by log(1/freq)