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A Chinese character set is a collection of Chinese characters. Since the size of a set is the number of elements in it, an introduction to Chinese character sets will also introduce the Chinese character number in them.

There are different Chinese character sets for different purposes. The following is an introduction to some representative character sets in history, in modern languages and in information technology.

Historical development[edit]

Along with the development of the relevant writing systems, the number of Chinese characters kept growing, as shown by the sizes of the character sets of the dictionaries.

Number of characters in monolingual Chinese dictionaries
Year	Dict.	Char.
300BC	Erya	4,300^[a]
100	Shuowen Jiezi	9,516
230	Shenglei	11,520
350	Zilin	12,824
543	Yupian	16,917
601	Qieyun	12,150
732	Tangyun	15,000
753	Yunhai jingyuan	26,911
997	Longkan Shoujian	26,430
1011	Guangyun	26,194
1039	Jiyun	53,525
1066	Leipian	31,319
1615	Zihui	33,179
1675	Zhengzitong	33,440
1716	Kangxi Dictionary	46,933
1915	Zhonghua Da Zidian	48,200
1968	Zhongwen Da Cidian	49,888
1989	Hanyu Da Zidian	54,678
1994	Zhonghua Zihai	85,568
2017	Dictionary of Chinese Character…

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Historical development[edit]

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