In daily life, there are 2,500 commonly used Chinese characters and 1000 commonly used Chinese characters.
The number of Chinese characters is nearly 654.38+million, but most of them are variant characters and rare words. The vast majority of variants and uncommon words have been standardized, except for ancient Chinese, which generally only occasionally appears in names and places. In addition, after the first batch of simplified characters, there are a number of "two simplified characters", which have been abolished, but a few numbers are still popular in society.
There are only 6000 commonly used words.