First of all, a brief introduction.
Yi, China Chinese character, radical fire, external stroke 12 painting, total stroke 16 painting, refers to radiation, which was called "Yi" in ancient times. Shoot: "Bright stirrup shines." Fierce: "burning charcoal." There is an old saying "Yi" and cooked food: "Zhan Yi must be clean." The old saying "light": "light." Dim light, shimmer; Warm.
Second, Chinese characters
1, a Chinese character (pinyin: hà nzi, phonetic notation: ㄏㄢˋㄗˋ), also known as Chinese, is a Chinese record symbol and belongs to the morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years. In form, it gradually changed from graphics to strokes, pictographs to symbols and complexity.
2. In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. Except for a few Chinese characters (such as Zi, Zi, Zi, Chi and Zi), they are all one Chinese character and one syllable. Modern Chinese characters refer to capitalized Chinese characters, including traditional characters and simplified characters. Modern Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script and seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script.
3. Chinese characters were invented and improved by Han ancestors, which is an indispensable link to maintain the Han dialect area. The earliest existing Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC and later inscriptions on bronze, which evolved into seal script of Western Zhou Dynasty, seal script and official script of Qin Dynasty, official script prevailed in Han and Wei Dynasties, and official script was changed to block letters at the end of Han Dynasty. Regular script prevailed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Third, quantity.
1, the number of Chinese characters is not accurate, about100000, and only a few thousand Chinese characters are used every day. According to statistics, 1000 common words can cover about 92% of written materials, 2,000 words can cover more than 98%, and 3,000 words have reached 99%.
2. There is little difference between simplified and traditional statistical results. With regard to the number of Chinese characters, according to the records of ancient dictionaries, we can see their development.