How many Chinese characters are there in China?

The number of Chinese characters is inaccurate, about100000 (the Chinese character library of Beijing Guoan Consulting Equipment Company has 9 125 1), and only a few thousand Chinese characters are used every day.

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.

There are more than 80,000 Chinese characters in history (there are also more than 60,000 sayings), most of which are variant characters and rare words. The vast majority of variants and uncommon words have been standardized, except for ancient Chinese, which generally only occasionally appears in names and places.

Extended data:

In 2000, the government of China implemented the new national standard of Chinese character coding, Chinese character coding character set-basic set extension (GB 18030-2000), and received a total of 27,484 Chinese characters. All computer products sold in Chinese mainland must use this new official standard.

The Chinese character coding system for information exchange has formulated a series of Chinese character set standards in various fields of Chinese character use.

Chinese mainland adopts the national standard code ("GB" is the abbreviation of People's Republic of China (PRC) national standard). GB23 12 contains 6763 Chinese characters, GBK contains 209 12 Chinese characters, and the latest GB 18030 contains 27533 Chinese characters.

BIG5 code contains 13053 Chinese characters. Single-byte or double-byte codes used in Taiwan Province Province and Hongkong.

Unicode is not well accepted in mainland China. The government requires that the software sold in Chinese mainland must support GB 18030 coding.

In the field of international communication and software design, CJK coding not only collects Chinese, but also Japanese and Korean characters.

References:

Chinese character Baidu encyclopedia