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China has a history of 5,000 years, so it is hard to say how many Chinese characters are * * *. According to scholars' research, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jin Wen * * * have about 5,000 Chinese characters, and we know that their meanings are about 3,000. China's earliest dictionary Shuo Wen Jie Zi contains 9353 Chinese characters.
Lei Bian in the Northern Song Dynasty received as many as 33 190 words, and Kangxi Dictionary in the Qing Dynasty received 46,933 words, which was the dictionary with the largest number of words in ancient times. The Grand Chinese Dictionary contains more than 56,000 words, and the latest edition of Xinhua Dictionary published in 20 years contains more than13,000 words.
You don't have to be surprised by this figure. There are only 3500 Chinese characters in the list of commonly used Chinese characters. China Language Life Report shows that 2,394 commonly used Chinese characters occupy 99% of the language space. The so-called commonly used Chinese characters take Pang Zhonghua's hard-pen calligraphy as an example. I had this book at home when I was a child, and my mother forced me to practice it. I feel very reluctant. This copybook has 2500 words.
Problems caused by different coding standards Before the popularization of computers and the arrival of digitalization, we can only count the number of Chinese characters according to dictionaries. However, after the arrival of the digital age, in addition to dictionaries, the China government began to collect Chinese characters on a regular basis and put them into national standard documents.
The earliest standard in Chinese mainland, formulated in 1980, was named GB23 12, that is, the national code of Chinese character information exchange, which was popular in Chinese mainland. This code is also used in Singapore and other places. Taiwan Province Province began to use the famous "big5 Five" font in 1983. The two standards deeply "hurt" the hearts of the older generation of computer game players.
In the hearts of many fans of the Three Kingdoms game, Cao Cao has another name-"Cheng Giant". In fact, this is the word "Cao Cao" five yards big. Because the standards are not uniform, the games produced in Taiwan Province Province run on mainland computers, hence the strange name.