There are about100000 Chinese characters, but only a few thousand words are 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.
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Standardization of Chinese characters
Since its birth, Chinese characters have experienced the evolution from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. The overall development of China's calligraphy is from complex to simple, and gradually simplified by reducing the number of strokes. But sometimes, in order to express the meaning better and more clearly, there is also the phenomenon of traditional Chinese characters.
In particular, the emergence of papermaking and printing has greatly promoted the development and spread of culture, and characters are increasingly used by the people. There are some simplified characters among the people, and the reduction of strokes of these characters is habitual and has a certain mass base. However, because they were different from the official Chinese characters at that time, they were considered vulgar and broken, and could not be called elegant.
Li Haixia's Study on Folk Characters in Stone Carvings in the Six Dynasties, Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties, Pan Chonggui's Catalogue of Folk Characters in Dunhuang and Collected Works of Dunhuang Changes, Huang Zheng's Dictionary of Folk Characters in Dunhuang, Zhang Yongquan's Study on Folk Characters in Dunhuang and China, and Liu Fu and Li Jiarui's Catalogue of Folk Characters Since Song and Yuan Dynasties list a large number of simple strokes or folk characters used in history. .
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Characters