How many Chinese characters are there?

There are about 7,000 commonly used characters and more than 90,000 Chinese characters.

At present, the most complete Chinese character database shows that there are more than 90,000 Chinese characters in China

Xinhua News Agency According to the Chinese character database of Beijing Guoan Information Equipment Company, which has passed the expert appraisal a few days ago, 91,251 Chinese characters with provenances are included. Experts say that this is currently the most complete collection of Chinese characters.

It is understood that before the advent of the Guoan font database, the largest number of Chinese characters was published in 1994 "Zhonghua Zihai", with a total of 8701 9 Chinese characters, including 320 duplicate characters. In addition to the full set of Chinese characters of national and international standards, the Guoan Font Library also covers all the Kaiding characters of Shuowen Jiezi, all the characters of Kangxi Dictionary, Hanyu Dictionary and Zhonghua Character Sea, and covers all Chinese characters sorted out by Taiwan's education department in the 80s. At the same time, it also specially collects the ancient and modern surnames and place names that cannot be included in the above-mentioned character collections, dictionaries, and character books.

Experts believe that the Guoan font can not only be used for printing Chinese characters, sorting out ancient books, compiling dictionaries, sorting out Chinese characters, and researching and using them in the four regions of the Taiwan Strait and abroad, but also provides a very high level of font tools for the production of names and certificates, and the marking of geographical names on China's geographical maps.

How many Chinese characters are there in the world? I'm afraid that no one can explain this question for a while.

The earliest character book is the Eastern Han Dynasty Xu Shen compiled the "Shuowen Jie Zi", a total of 9353 Chinese characters, the appearance of "Shuo Wen Jie Zi", so that the Chinese character writing has a unified standard and norms, Xu Shen is therefore respected by the scholars of the past dynasties as the "word saint".

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the "Jade Chapter" compiled by Gu Yewang of the Southern Liang Dynasty collected 16,917 characters, and this book was revised in the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, and the number of words increased to 22,726. The "Guangyun" compiled by Ding Du and others in the Song Dynasty has 53,525 characters, which is the dictionary with the most Chinese characters in ancient times. The Kangxi Dictionary compiled by Zhang Yushu in the Qing Dynasty received 47,035 characters, and after the Xinhai Revolution, Ouyang Pucun and others compiled the "Chinese Dictionary", which included more than 48,000 Chinese characters.

In recent years, the Great Chinese Dictionary has been published, with a total of more than 56,000 Chinese characters, making it the dictionary with the largest number of Chinese characters so far.

The newly compiled "Sea of Chinese Characters" tells people that there are nearly 90,000 Chinese characters in total. With an income of 860,000 yuan, the book was described by the mass media as the world's best.

There are nearly 100,000 Chinese charactersThere are several thousand Chinese characters commonly used. There are currently 27 scripts in China; According to statistics, in addition to Chinese characters, many of the other 55 ethnic groups have their own scripts, such as Zhuang, Buyi, Naxi, Lisu, Hani, Wa, Dong, Jingpo, Tujia, etc., and their scripts were created or improved with the help of the new Chinese people**.

Ethnic groups that use more than two scripts include the Dai, Miao, Mongol, and Naxi. Therefore, there are 27 scripts in China, and only a few are often used.

Chinese character culture

Chinese characters are by far the longest continuously used script, and they are the only ones of the major writing systems in antiquity that have been passed down to the present day, and Chinese characters have been used as the main official script in all Chinese dynasties.

In ancient times, Chinese characters were developed to a high level of perfection, and were not only used in China, but also served as the only international communication script in East Asia for a long time, and were the official languages of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, the Ryukyus, and other countries until the 20th century.

Chinese characters are broad and profound, with a long history, and are the most magnificent treasures of the world's civilization.

There are about 100,000 Chinese characters in total.

In fact, there is no accurate number for the number of Chinese characters, and there are about 100,000 Chinese characters according to the complete statistics of the non-game Naishou. According to the list of commonly used characters in modern Chinese promulgated in 1988, there are 2,500 Chinese characters commonly used in our daily life, and 1,000 Chinese characters are less commonly used.

Development of Chinese characters:

Chinese characters are morpheme scripts, and the total number is very large. So far, I'm afraid no one has been able to answer the exact number. It is estimated that the number of Chinese characters reaches around 110,000.

As for the number of Chinese characters, we can see the development of Chinese characters based on the records of ancient character books and word books.

The Qin Dynasty's Cangjie, Erudite, and Calendar have a total of 3,300 words, the Han Dynasty Yangxiong compiles the precepts, with 5,340 words, and Xu Shen's exposition has 9,353 words.

According to the Tang Dynasty's Feng Yan Wen Ji and Text Chapter, Jin Lu Chen wrote 12,824 words, Yang Chengqing of the Later Wei Dynasty wrote 13,734 words, and Liang Guye Wang wrote 16,917 words.

In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Qiangzeng's jade chapter has 22,561 words. In the Song Dynasty, Sima Guangxiu had as many as 31,319 words, and by the Qing Dynasty Kangxi Dictionary had more than 47,000 words.

In 1915, Ouyang Mu or Bocun and other Chinese dictionaries had more than 48,000 words. In 1959, the Great Han and Dictionary of Japanese Zhuqiao Ruts received 49,964 words.

In 1971, Zhang Qiyun edited the Chinese dictionary, with 49,888 words.

With the passage of time, the number of words in the dictionary has increased.

In 1990, Xu Zhongshu edited the Chinese dictionary, with a total of 54,678 words.

In 1994, Leng Yulong and other Chinese characters received an astonishing number of words, as many as 85,000 words.

There are 29 scripts in China. China's 29 scripts include Chinese characters and 28 ethnic minority scripts currently in use, of which Chinese characters are by far the longest continuously used script, and Chinese characters have been the main official script in all dynasties of China, while modern Chinese characters include traditional and simplified characters.

Writing is a way and tool for human beings to record and express information with symbols to pass on the long history, and words enable human beings to enter a civilized society with historical records.

According to the chronological order of development, Chinese characters can be basically divided into pre-Qin, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, modern Chinese and modern Chinese characters.

Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in history, and their development has gone through the evolution of oracle bone script, golden script, large seal, small seal, official script, cursive script, regular script, and line script.