How Many Words Are There In Modern Written Chinese?

How Many Words Are There In Modern Written Chinese?

 Now that we know a Chinese word is a Chinese character, so the question is easy and simple. Just count the number of Chinese characters in a dictionary. That is it.

According to Xinhua Dictionary, the most authoritative standard modern Chinese dictionary, there are about ten thousand Chinese characters in it. Then there are about ten thousand Chinese words in modern written Chinese.

Chinese translation：

现代中文有多少个word字？

现在我们已经知道中文的word就是汉字，所以这个问题就简单了。只要数一数字典里有多少个汉字，就这么简单。

根据最权威的现代中文字典，新华字典收录了大约一万个汉字，那么现代中文使用大约一万个word。