How many basic characters are there in Chinese characters in China?

There are more than 80,000 Chinese characters in history (there are also more than 60,000 sayings), most of which 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.

If learning and using Chinese characters really need to master the sounds, shapes and meanings of 70,000 to 80,000 Chinese characters, then Chinese characters will be the characters that no one in the world can and will not learn and use. However, most of the Chinese characters included in the Chinese Dictionary are "dead words", that is, words that have existed in history and are abandoned in today's written language.

According to statistics, there are 589,283 words in the Thirteen Classics (I Ching, Shangshu, Biography of Ram, Analects of Confucius, Mencius, etc. 13 ancient books), including 6,544 variants. Therefore, in fact, people only use more than 6 thousand Chinese characters every day.

Extended data:

In the computer coding standard of Chinese characters, the largest Chinese character coding is CNS 1 1643 in Taiwan Province Province, and the full-character database of version 5.0 can query 87,047 Chinese characters, 1077 1 pinyin word, with 894 symbols.

The big five codes commonly used in Taiwan Province and Hongkong include 13053 traditional Chinese characters. GB 18030 is the latest internal code character set in People's Republic of China (PRC). GBK contains simplified characters, traditional characters and 209 12, while earlier GB23 12 contains 6763 simplified characters. Unicode's unified ideographic basic character set for China, Japan and Korea contains 20,902 Chinese characters, totaling more than 70,000 characters.

In the early Chinese character system, the number of words was insufficient, and many things were represented by interchangeable words, which caused the ambiguity of text expression. In order to improve the clarity of expression, Chinese characters have gone through a stage of gradual complexity and a large number of words. The excessive increase in the number of Chinese characters makes it difficult to learn Chinese characters, and the meaning that a single Chinese character can express is limited, so the meaning of many single Chinese characters is expressed by Chinese characters, such as common double spelling words. The development of Chinese characters tends to create new words instead of new words.

The materials related to the origin of Chinese characters unearthed in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and earlier in Yin Ruins mainly refer to the carved or painted symbols appearing on pottery in the late primitive society and early historical society, and also include a few symbols carved on Oracle Bone Inscriptions, jade and stone tools. It can be said that they provide a new basis for explaining the origin of Chinese characters.

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