How many Chinese characters are there in China?

Chinese characters, also known as Chinese and Chinese characters, are also called square characters, which are recorded symbols of Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. So how many Chinese characters are there in China? ? 1 There is no exact number of Chinese characters, which is about100000. There are only a few thousand Chinese characters used in daily life. According to statistics, 1000 commonly used words can cover about 92% of written materials, 2,000 words can cover more than 98%, and 3,000 words have reached 99%. Simplified statistics are not much different from traditional statistics. The number of Chinese characters changes with the development of history: the calendars of Cang Xie, Bo Xue and Qin Dynasty have 3,300 characters. In Han Dynasty, Yang Xiong's Xun Bian has 5340 words, and Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi has 9353 words. According to the seal cutting performance of Moon Hee in Tang Dynasty, Jin wrote 65,438+02,824 words, Wei Yang Chengqing wrote 65,438+03,734 words of Zitong, and Gu wrote 65,438+069,664 words in Southern Dynasties. There are 225,665,438+0 characters in the carved jades in Sun Qiang in Tang Dynasty. There are as many as 365,438+0,365,438+09 words in Lei Pian edited by Sima Guang in Song Dynasty, and 53,525 words in Ji Yun edited by officials in Song Dynasty, which was once the book with the largest number of words. Kangxi dictionary in Qing Dynasty has more than 47,000 words. 8 19 15 The Chinese Dictionary edited by Ouyang Bocun has more than 48,000 words; In 9 1959, the dictionary of dahanhe edited by various bridges in Japan had 49,964 words; 10 197 1 The Chinese Dictionary edited by Zhang Qiyun has 49,888 words; 1 1 1990 The Chinese Dictionary edited by Xu Zhongshu has 54,678 words; 12 1994 The Ocean of Chinese Characters edited by Leng Yulong has 85,000 words. 13 the fifth edition of the dictionary of variant forms compiled by the education authorities of Taiwan Province province contains orthographic characters and variant forms *** 106230 words, which is a dictionary with more Chinese characters. The Sea of Chinese Characters, edited by Lan He and Matsuoka, is a reference book with the largest number of Chinese characters in the world. There are 102434 prefix words in the text and1165438 prefix words in the appendix.