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    Chinese characters originated over 5,000 years ago and remain an integral part of Chinese culture today, with nearly a quarter of the world's population using them. While the Kangxi Dictionary contains over 47,000 characters, most Chinese newspapers and magazines use around 3,500 basic characters. Chinese characters have evolved over millennia to include styles like oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, small seal characters, official script, regular script, cursive writing, and freehand cursive.

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    Chinese characters originated over 5,000 years ago and remain an integral part of Chinese culture today, with nearly a quarter of the world's population using them. While the Kangxi Dictionary contains over 47,000 characters, most Chinese newspapers and magazines use around 3,500 basic characters. Chinese characters have evolved over millennia to include styles like oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, small seal characters, official script, regular script, cursive writing, and freehand cursive.

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    Chinese characters, also known as Hanzi (漢字) are one of the earliest forms of written language in
    the world, dating back approximately five thousand years. Nearly one-fourth of the world’s
    population still use Chinese characters today. As an art form, Chinese calligraphy remains an integral
    aspect of Chinese culture.

    There are 47,035 Chinese characters in the Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典), the standard national
    dictionary developed during the 18th and 19th centuries, but the precise quantity of Chinese characters
    is a mystery; numerous, rare variants have accumulated throughout history. Studies from China have
    shown that 90% of Chinese newspapers and magazines tend to use 3,500 basic characters.

    Evolution of Chinese Characters

    Chinese characters have evolved over several thousands of years to include many different styles, or
    scripts. The main forms are: Oracle Bone Inscriptions (Jia Gu Wen 甲骨文), Bronze Inscriptions,
    (Jin Wen 金文), Small Seal Characters (Xiao Zhuan 小篆), Official Script (Li Shu 隸書), Regular
    Script (Kai Shu 楷書), Cursive Writing or Grass Stroke Characters (Cao Shu 草書), and Freehand
    Cursive (Xing Shu 行書).

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