对现代汉语常用字的测量,如果从陈鹤琴的《语体文应用字汇》(1928)算起,到国家语委和国家教委联合公布的《现代汉语常用字表》(1988),前后经历了整整六十年。陈鹤琴和助理九人用手工操作,费了两三年功夫,使用六类语料554,498个字符,得出4,261个字种——其中出现300次以上的计569个,出现100次以上的计1193个。直到现在,陈鹤琴的统计数字还有很大对比参考价值。 The most commonly used words in modern Chinese, measured from Chen Heqin's “Thesaurus of Applied Linguistics” (1928), went through a complete list of “commonly used Chinese words in modern Chinese” (1988) jointly published by the State Language Commission and the State Education Commission year. Chen Heqin and his assistant, nine of whom worked by hand, spent two or three years on effort, using 554,498 characters in six categories of corpora, resulting in 4,261 characters - 569 of which appeared more than 300 times and 1193 . Until now, Chen Heqin statistics there is a great contrast between the reference value.