The Evolution of Chinese Characters is a book that studies the evolution of Chinese characters. This book * * * selects 500 commonly used Chinese characters (more than 660 words plus commonly used words and borrowed words mentioned in the interpretation), and each word is listed in eight fonts, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Jinwen, Dazhuan, Xiaozhuan, Lishu, cursive script, regular script and running script (some of them have been simplified and simplified characters have been added). A few figures in Jinwen are replaced by regular script or gauntlet.

Chinese characters are morphemes, and the total number is large. How many characters are there in Chinese characters? So far, I'm afraid no one can answer very accurate figures. With regard to the number of Chinese characters, according to the records of ancient dictionaries, we can see their development.

There are 3,300 words in Cang Xie, erudition and calendar in Qin Dynasty, 5,340 words in Xun Bian written by Yang Xiong in Han Dynasty, and 9,353 words in Shuo Wen Jie Zi written in Xu Shen. After Jin and Song Dynasties, the characters became more and more complicated. 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 by Sima Guangxiu, and in Qing Dynasty, there were more than 47,000 words in Kangxi Dictionary. 19 15 The Chinese Dictionary written by Ouyang Bocun and others has more than 48,000 words. 1959 The Yamato Dictionary compiled by various bridges in Japan has 49,964 words. The Chinese Dictionary edited by Zhang Qiyun in 197 1 has 49,888 words.