An ordinary Xinhua Chinese Dictionary has about1100 characters (including traditional characters and variant characters), while Kangxi Dictionary compiled in the early Qing Dynasty has more than 47,000 Chinese characters, and the recently published Chinese Dictionary has only 56,000 Chinese characters.
English has 700,000 words, ranking second in the world vocabulary list. It belongs to one of the languages with rich vocabulary. Because English is widely used in various countries and regions, it absorbs various words from the local language and culture. For example, jiaozi in English is derived from jiaozi in Chinese. So English vocabulary is much higher than Chinese.
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There are nearly 6000 different languages in the world. In the ranking based on language vocabulary, Kazakh is among the best. According to Islam.kz, the analysis and statistics of relevant experts show that among more than 6,000 languages in the world, Arabic has the richest vocabulary, with 6.5438+0.23 million words in its thesaurus.
English occupies the second place in the language vocabulary list with a total vocabulary of 700,000 words. The third place is Kazakh, the national language of Kazakhstan. It is reported that there are 600,000 words in the Kazakh dictionary.
It is worth mentioning that Chinese is the most widely used language in the world. There are1200 million people in the world who use Chinese as their mother tongue and 300 million people who use Chinese as their second language. Generally speaking, there are 654.38+0.5 billion people who use Chinese in the world. Internationally, the population speaking English is equivalent to that speaking Chinese.