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There are 3,300 words in Cang Xie Bo Xue Li in Qin Dynasty, 5,340 words in Xun Bian by Yang Xiong in Han Dynasty and 9,353 words in Shuo Wen Jie Zi by Xu Shen. After Jin and Song Dynasties, Chinese characters became increasingly complex. According to the seal cutting performance of Moon Hee in Tang Dynasty, Jin wrote 12824, Wei Yang Chengqing wrote Zitong 13734 and Gu Liang wrote 169 17.
Jade Piece is a supplement to Sun Qiang in Tang Dynasty, with 225,665,438+0 words. In Song Dynasty, there were as many as 3 1 and 3 19 words in Lei Pian written by Sima Guangxiu, and in Qing Dynasty, there were 47,035 words in Kangxi Dictionary. 19 15 The Chinese Dictionary written by Ouyang Bocun and others has more than 48,000 words. The Chinese Dictionary edited by Zhang Qiyun in 197 1 has 49,888 words.
1990 The Chinese Dictionary edited by Xu Zhongshu has 54,678 words. The Sea of Chinese Characters written by Leng Yulong in 1994 has an astonishing number of words, reaching 85,000 words. However, most of the Chinese characters included in this book have existed in history, but they have been abandoned in today's written Chinese.
There is no standard for rare words, and Xinhua dictionary can't frame them. Because there are also many words in the dictionary that I don't know after graduating from Chinese major, and there are also many "troubles" that computers can't spell out. Because there are too many Chinese characters. Like other languages, most words in the dictionary are not commonly used. Taking the recognized Chinese dictionary as a sample, it has received more than 50,000 words. But there are not many commonly used Chinese characters.
According to statistics, 3,500 commonly used words cover 99.48% of the words used in modern publications. Thirteen Classics (I Ching, Shangshu, Zuo Zhuan, Gongyang Zhuan, Analects of Confucius, Mencius, etc. 13 ancient books) have a total of 589,283 words, including 6,544 different words. Selected Works of Mao Zedong consists of four volumes, with a total of 660,273 words, with only 298 1 word in different languages.
Words used in names also conform to this rule. 1988, the Chinese Department of the Institute of Pragmatics of the State Language Commission extracted 570,000 names from the census data of 14 provinces and cities. Statistics show that the names of 570,000 names are only 4 14 1 characters. Among them, 1505 words cover 99% of 570,000 names, and the remaining 2,600 words are only used by 1% people;
Of these 2,600 words, only more than 500 words exceed the basic set (6,763 words) of Chinese Character Coded Character Set for Information Interchange, and the population used is less than 0. 1%. There are many people who don't know their names, how to read them, how to write them, and how to input them if they use a computer. These are all jumbled and uncommon words.