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The original appearance of Chinese characters The oracle bone inscription carved on the bones of tortoiseshells with a knife is the earliest known Chinese character, and its glyphs are large and small, and the pen is very thin, and each character is like a child's painting. The gold inscription engraved on the bronze is almost as old as the oracle bone inscription, and its strokes are thicker and more evenly proportioned. The picture shows Mao Gongding and the inscription.
Ancient Codes: Warring States Script During the Warring States period (475-221 BC) in Chinese history, China was divided into seven vassal states. The scripts vary greatly from country to country, like ancient codes, which are difficult to decipher.
A copper section engraved with the Chu script. Stone drum engraved with the Great Seal, the script of the Qin State Unification of Chinese Characters In 221 BC, after Qin Shi Huang unified China, he also unified Chinese characters. Since then, it has laid the foundation for the cultural unity of the Chinese nation and promoted economic and cultural exchanges and development.
The picture shows Qin Shi Huang. The unified script of the Qin Dynasty, the small seal, shaped the strokes and structure of Chinese characters, and laid the foundation for the square shape of Chinese characters.
The picture shows the "Yishan Carved Stone" written by Li Si, the prime minister of Qin. The Qin Tiger Character Cast with the Small Seal Script The Evolution of Chinese Characters The Chinese characters made in prison: Lishu Lishu, a simple way to write the small seal, was first popular among the lower-class characters of the Qin Dynasty, and according to legend, Cheng Miao organized it into a new font in prison.
The picture shows the Qinli bamboo slips unearthed in Hubei. In the Han Dynasty (206-220 BC), Lishu was very sticky, and the irregular lines were changed into regular pens.
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There is no exact number of Chinese characters, but it is about 100,000 (91,251 Chinese characters are sourced in the Chinese character database of Beijing Guoan Information Equipment Company), and only a few thousand Chinese characters are used on a daily basis. The Great Chinese Dictionary contains a total of 56,000 words.
The Qin Dynasty's "Cangjie", "Erudition", and "Calendar" have a total of 3,300 words, the Han Dynasty Yangxiong's "Discipline and Compilation" has 5,340 words, and Xu Shen's "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" has 9,353 words. According to the Tang Dynasty's Fengyan "Wenjian Ji Text" recorded Jin Lu Chen's "Zilin", there are 12,824 words, Yang Chengqing of the Later Wei Dynasty wrote "Zitong", there are 13,734 words, and Liang Guye Wang Zuopei's "Jade Chapter" has 16,917 words. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Qiangzeng's "Jade Chapter" has 22,561 words.
In the Song Dynasty, Sima Guangxiu's "Class Chapter" had more than 31,319 words, and by the Qing Dynasty, the "Kangxi Dictionary" had more than 47,000 words. In 1915, Ouyang Bocun et al.'s "Chinese Dictionary" had more than 48,000 words. In 1959, Japan's Momohashi Zheci's "Great Han and Ci with Oak Dictionary" received 49,964 words.
In 1971, Zhang Qiyun edited the "Chinese Dictionary", which has 49,888 characters.
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The number of kanji is a very important concept, and it plays a very important role in daily life. With the advent of the information age, the application of Chinese characters has become more and more extensive. Although numbers and the English alphabet have gradually become indispensable symbols in people's lives in modern society, Chinese characters are still an important part of Chinese culture.
What is the number of kanji? The number of Chinese characters currently in official use is 8,105. This number is still evolving, and as society changes and people's needs change, new Chinese characters are constantly being created to express new things or concepts.
As for the history of the evolution of Chinese characters, it can be traced back to the oracle bone inscription period more than 3,000 years ago.
The increase or decrease in the number of Chinese characters does not depend on people's subjective will, but is based on the actual use of Chinese characters and language needs. For example, in the field of computer science, as technology develops and people demand new things, some new terms and technical vocabulary will be created. New Chinese characters are needed to express these concepts.
In fact, many new Chinese characters have emerged in the field of computers, such as "netizen", "information technology", "Internet" and so on.
In general, the change in the number of Chinese characters is also a cultural evolution and technological progress. Chinese characters are an important part of the Chinese civilization and play a pivotal role in the development of Chinese culture. With the changes of the times and the development of culture, the number of Chinese characters will gradually change.
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About 100,000.
There are about 100,000 Chinese characters. In 2012, the Chinese character library project was launched in China, according to statistics, there are about 100,000 Chinese characters, 100,000 ethnic minority characters and more than 100,000 uncommon ancient writing characters such as oracle bone scripts, totaling about 300,000 characters.
The number of Chinese characters commonly used in daily life is 2,500, and the number of second-common characters is 1,000, and the commonly used Chinese characters occupy 99% of the language space.
The development of Chinese characters:
The Chinese civilization is a unique civilization, and its writing is also very unique. Among all the countries in the world, only China has always had an uninterrupted cultural inheritance due to the strong inclusiveness and assimilation of its national culture, which makes Chinese characters one of the few uninterrupted forms of writing in the world.
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