How many Chinese characters are included in Shuo Wen Jie Zi?

Shuo Wen Jie Zi * * has 9353 Chinese characters, most of which are Xiao Zhuan; In addition, 163 heavy articles were collected, including ancient prose, essays, strange characters, or styles, modern texts, folk characters and so on. According to the radical structure of writing form, the May 4th Movement is divided into five parts, and each part establishes a radical, which starts with "one" and ends with "sea". The arrangement order of radicals is mostly "connected by shape", while the words in the same part are roughly arranged by meaning. The method is: first, list the prefix of seal script and explain its original meaning, and then analyze the glyph and explain its pronunciation according to pictograph, signifier, knowing, pictophonetic characters, transliteration and borrowing. Explain from a certain sound or a certain sound first, or read it as a phonetic notation, and quote more classics when saying meaning, taking various explanations as examples. Its method of closely combining form, sound and meaning to explain Chinese characters is quite original. In addition, Shuowen theoretically expounded the popular names of "Six Books" since the Warring States Period, which laid the foundation for the study of China's philology. Among them, most of the fonts in the pre-Qin period and many texts, exegesis and phonological materials before and after the Han Dynasty were preserved, which reflected the face of ancient Chinese vocabulary. So Shuowen is still an indispensable reference book for studying ancient philology and ancient Chinese until today.