汉字的数量很多,但是很难说出准确的数字。不过我们可以从古今字典中知道汉字的大概数目。东汉的《说文解字》收字9353个,宋代《集韵》收字53525个,清朝《康熙字典》收字60370个(2010年版)。1994年中华书局、中国友谊出版公司出版的《中华字海》收字85568个,这是目前收字最多的字典。经常使用的字是常用字,也就是 The number of Chinese characters is large, but it is hard to tell the exact number. However, we can know the approximate number of Chinese characters from ancient and modern dictionaries. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shuowen Jiezi received 9353 letters, 53525 letters of the Song Dynasty “Ji Yun”, and 60370 letters of the Kangxi Dictionary in the Qing Dynasty (2010 edition). In 1994, Zhonghua Book Company and China Friendship Publishing Company published 85,568 letters of “Chinese character sea”, which is the dictionary with the most collected letters. Frequently used words are commonly used words, that is