In 20 12, China "Chinese character library" project was started. According to statistics, there are about 654.38+ten thousand Chinese characters, 654.38+ten thousand minority languages and more than 654.38+ten thousand Oracle Bone Inscriptions and other unconventional ancient characters, totaling about 300,000 words. However, the number of commonly used Chinese characters in daily life is 2500, and the number of commonly used words is 1000, which occupies 99% of the language space.
Introduction to Chinese characters
Chinese characters (pinyin: hàn zì, phonetic notation: ㄢˋˋ), also known as Chinese characters and Chinese characters, are recorded symbols of Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years.
Chinese characters have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only ones in various ghost writing systems in ancient times. Chinese characters have always been the main official language in China. In ancient times, Chinese characters were also used as the only international communication language in East Asia. Before the 20th century, they were the official written standard characters of Japan, Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Ryukyu and other countries, and all East Asian countries created their own Chinese characters to some extent.