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on Jan 16, 2014
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That seems more than plausible to me. While the character 象 is two bytes longer than the character "f", it is
five
bytes shorter than "elephant".
IIRC the average word length in English is around 5 characters.
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IIRC the average word length in English is around 5 characters.