The Yinshang Oracle has now found 4500 words. Of these, about 2000 are recognizable.
Oracle bones are words engraved or written on tortoiseshells and animal bones. It was excavated in the area of Xiaotun Village in Anyang, Henan, because it was once the capital of the Shang King Pan Geng to Di Xin in the late Shang Dynasty, and was historically known as "Yin".
The Shang dynasty was destroyed and became a ruin, and posterity was named "Yin Ruins". Therefore, the oracle bone is also called "Yin Ruin Script".
Jin Wen - Zhong Dingwen. Now 3,000 words have been found. Of which 2000 can be identified
According to Rong Geng's "Jin Wen Bian" record, the number of gold texts found so far is 3722, and 2420 of them can be identified!
The fifteen volumes of Xu Shen's "Commentaries on the Interpretation of Texts" of the Eastern Han Dynasty contain 9353 characters. There are 1163 heavy texts, a total of 10516 words.
In 30 years, Xu Shen compiled the world's first dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi, which standardized the shape, sound and meaning of Chinese characters. Academics call Xu Shen "Xu Jun", "Shuowen Jiezi" "Xu Shu", and "Xu Xue". Xu Shen made outstanding contributions to Chinese philology and was revered as the "Character Sage".
The Three Kingdoms Zhang Ji compiled the Guangya collection of 18,150 words.
During the Three Kingdoms Period, Li Deng, a Wei dynasty, compiled "Sound Class" with 11,520 words.
Unfortunately, the book has been scattered.
Lü Chen's "Zi Lin" of the Jin Dynasty collects 12824 characters. Ed.
The Southern and Northern Dynasties Gu Yeyu's "Jade Chapter" has thirty volumes, originally containing 16917 words. This book contains more than 22,700 words.
Originally, there were only a few fragments in Japan.
Sui Dynasty Lu Fayan "Cut Rhyme" collects 12158 words. It was originally lost.
Tang Sunmian's "Tang Yun" collects 15,000 words. It was originally lost.
Chen Pengnian, Qiu Yong and others in the Northern Song Dynasty reworked "Tang Yun". Integrate the five volumes of the Great Song Dynasty Reconstruction of Guangyun. It is the earliest surviving rhyme book in China. Collect 26194 words. Ding Du et al.'s revised "Collection rhymes" contain 53,525 words. Wang Jie and Sima Guang compiled the forty-five volumes of the "Class Chapter", which contained 31391 words.
The Ming Dynasty Mei Bingzuo's "Character Collection" collected more than 33179 words
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Song Lian's "Hongwu Zhengyun" sixteen volumes, 32025 words.
Zhang Zilie's "Orthographic Pass" collected more than 33,000 words
Zhang Yushu of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Tingjing compiled the Kangxi Dictionary in the fifty-fifth year of Kangxi (1716) with 47,035 words.
Xu Yuanhao, Ouyang Pucun, Wang Changlu and others compiled the Zhonghua Da Zidian with more than 48,000 words and published it in 1915.
Xinhua Dictionary published in 1953
The Homophonic Dictionary, published in 1955, contains 10,503 words.
The 1979 edition of Ci Hai contains 14,872 words
In 1980, the Xinhua Dictionary was published with a collection of 12,000 words.
The Great Dictionary of China (Taiwan Edition) contains 49,888 words
We have as many as 60,000 Chinese characters, 5,000 to 8,000 commonly used.