Chinese characters have always been with the lives of the Chinese people. They have copied square Chinese characters over and over again since childhood. Now, everything needs to be signed.

In the era of electronic information, writing is becoming less and less, but Chinese characters are still inseparable from our lives. Whenever we pick up a pen to write, we ask, how many Chinese characters are there in China?

As we all know, the earliest writing discovered in China is "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". According to the unearthed oracle bone inscriptions, there are about 4,500 characters, and more than 2,000 of them have been identified.

Oracle bone script is an ancient script, which is very different from the square script written by Nico. There are far more than 4,500 Chinese characters today.

Starting from the Eastern Han Dynasty, the earliest dictionary "——" appeared, which systematically analyzed the glyphs and etymology of Chinese characters. This was the earliest dictionary in China. After that, many books containing Chinese characters appeared one after another.

The earliest "Shuowen Jiezi" recorded 9,353 Chinese characters. By the "Yupian" year of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were 16,917, "Ji Yun" 53,525, and "Kangxi Dictionary" 47,035. 56,000 in the Chinese Dictionary.

As time goes by, more and more Chinese characters are included, so it is not difficult to understand. From the first "Shuowen Jiezi" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was compiled in the twelfth year of Yongyuan of the Han Dynasty, to the compilation of the "Hanyu Dictionary" in 1990, people have been creating Chinese characters for 1,800 years. Due to the editor's limited energy and experience, there are inevitably some omissions in the Chinese characters included. There is no accurate data yet.

The "Chinese Character Ocean" published in the 20th century contains 85,000 Chinese characters, including all Chinese characters recorded in previous dictionaries, plus Buddhist scriptures, Taoist difficult characters, dialect characters, etc.

The Chinese character library of Beijing National Security Information contains 91,251 Chinese characters, which is the most complete at present.

There are only 3,500 Chinese characters used in our daily life. According to statistics, 1,000 Chinese characters have covered about 92% of written materials, 2,000 Chinese characters have covered about 98%, and 3,000 Chinese characters can reach 99%.

Chinese characters are by far the longest-lasting script and the only script in the ancient gate record system that has been handed down to this day.

As a member of the Chinese nation, I can't help but feel proud!