Relevant national institutions have made statistics and issued relevant documents. It is divided into a common vocabulary and a sub-common vocabulary. About 2500 to 7000.
Here is a quote from Mr. Su Chengzhong for your reference.
By contrast, how many Chinese characters do China people have to master? According to statistics, from an article of 900,000 words written by Chen Heqin (1928), it is found that only 47 19 variants are used in the whole article. All Mao Zedong's works contain only 365,438+036 Chinese characters. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles used 2 134 Chinese characters. Camel Xiangzi used 24 13 Chinese characters.
Part of the relationship between Chinese characters and English words can be found in Modern Chinese-English Dictionary published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. The first edition of 1988 used 4800 Chinese characters, and there were hundreds of thousands of English words and collocations. In other words, thousands of Chinese characters can express about100000 English terms.
Appendix: Summary of the original text
Chinese Characters of Responsibility in the Information Society (Ⅱ)
Chinese characters that the information society is duty-bound.
Su Chengzhong
1 knowledge inflation
The biggest problem in the information age is how to deal with the rapidly expanding knowledge. The crux of the problem is not that people are afraid that knowledge will grow too fast, but that people think that the input method is too slow. Imagine if all the knowledge has been stored in your memory, just waiting to be accessed at any time, then no matter how fast human wisdom expands, no one will regard it as a problem. Therefore, the real problem to be solved is how to input this knowledge into human memory more quickly.
Only when you have materials in your mind can you use them and enjoy them, and you can use them to invent new things. According to the encyclopedia of linguistics, Encyclopedia of Language
And linguistics) on page 4538: "S.C. Gilfillan.
It is argued that the development of technology is gradually formed and details are added. Therefore, strictly speaking, the so-called' unique invention' is a vague concept. "Invention" is actually an innovation in language, not the appearance of reality. "The new invention of mankind is actually the invention of new words. To associate and integrate a new idea with several old words or ideas is an invention. Due to the rapid development of modern times, the most invented English has now exceeded one million words (according to statistics of ELL, nearly one million patents are added in the United States every year).
On the other hand, human input speed is still the same as that of thousands of years ago. Although computers have greatly accelerated the speed of our inquiry and communication, if a person can't master enough words or load the symbols of these new inventions in his lifetime, most of human knowledge or inventions will still be irrelevant to him. Only by fundamentally solving the current input mode in theory can any individual enjoy more information in his lifetime. Only by multiplying the information that everyone can enjoy in his life can we in turn promote the development of electronic technology.
How many words can a person master in his life? Owen Fazola personally
According to the article Communication, "Ordinary educated English users should know 70,000 words." Another author, J. H. Britten, is in language
Textbooks for senior students
Page 9 of the book reads: "Winston and Churchill have 30,000 words, while professors like Haldane can master 50,000 to 60,000 words." Asher
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (hereinafter referred to as ELL)
Page 1997 says: "An educated English user should have a vocabulary of 50,000 to 250,000." In Shakespeare's time, there were only 30,000 words in English. According to the above statement, Churchill and Shakespeare are uneducated in modern society. I think the reason why Shakespeare can write works that are beyond the reach of future generations is that he may chew a few words repeatedly in order to be able to do it with ease, which future generations do not have.
By contrast, how many Chinese characters do China people have to master? According to statistics, from an article of 900,000 words written by Chen Heqin (1928), it is found that only 47 19 variants are used in the whole article. All Mao Zedong's works contain only 365,438+036 Chinese characters. Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles used 2 134 Chinese characters. Camel Xiangzi used 24 13 Chinese characters.
Part of the relationship between Chinese characters and English words can be found in Modern Chinese-English Dictionary published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. The first edition of 1988 used 4800 Chinese characters, and there were hundreds of thousands of English words and collocations. In other words, thousands of Chinese characters can express about100000 English terms.
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