The Study Of Characters Quantity And Species In Commonly-used Chinese Characters

Chinese characters are one of the key researches of the Chinese study in history. This paper takes characters quantity and species as research object, and discuss on the problem from philology, by way of longitudinal and transverse, macro and micro specific analysis. The paper focuses on the application of the characters quantity and species in contemporary Chinese basic teaching and teaching Chinese as a second language.Firstly, it gives a brief introduction of the current situation of the research on commonly-used Chinese characters quantity and species, and introduces the meaning and the methods of the paper. Secondly, we try to stage the history of studying commonly-used Chinese characters, divides general study into three periods:ancient time, modern and contemporary time, time since 1949. The paper gathers some materials from different stages; aims to gain an overall knowledge of the development of commonly-used Chinese characters by detailed objective information. Moreover, the paper compares characters quantity and species of different periods by adopting mathematical statistics way. Then we can draw a conclusion that the quantity of commonly-used Chinese characters are 2000～3000, and the species are more or less the same in history, etc. According to the results, we can grasp the trend and the changes of quantity and species of commonly-used Chinese characters.Finally, on the basis of above research, explores practical application of the Chinese characters in contemporary primary teaching and teaching Chinese as a second language, and put forward the advantages and disadvantages of teaching of current commonly-used Chinese characters, and come up constructive opinions to application of the commonly-used Chinese characters.