Nothing like a paper or anything, but just kind of anecdotally I downloaded 西遊記 from Project Gutenberg [1] and measured it. In UTF-8 it's 2,236,564 bytes, in U

Nothing like a paper or anything, but just kind of anecdotally I downloaded 西遊記 from Project Gutenberg [1] and measured it. In UTF-8 it's 2,236,564 bytes, in UTF-16 it's 1,554,998 bytes. [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23962/23962-0.txt https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23962/23962-0.txt