Chinese characters is a cultural phenomenon, so the first thing to study the relationship between Chinese characters and its cultural background. If you want to comprehensive investigation the Chinese characters, will study the following five topics: one is the Chinese characters and Chinese, Chinese characters and culture, the three Chinese characters and nature, the four Chinese characters and economy, five Chinese characters and society. From the perspective of the Han Chinese, cultural system, cultural ecology, research Chinese characters mainly has two aspects: One is to study the specific Chinese characters; Two is to study some theoretical issues of Chinese characters, such as the nature of Chinese characters, the characteristics of Chinese characters, and so on.

Based on the Database of China and Korea’s commonly-used Modern Chinese Characters, this book explores to consider Korea’s modern Chinese characters as a closed system for the first time and carries out the quantitative statistics and analysis of the quantities, species and forms towards the Chinese characters within the above system, including from the materials of Table of Korea’s Modern Chinese Characters, Table of Korea’s Chinese Characters Test, etc. The conclusion will greatly contribute to the studies of the extraterritorial spread of Chinese characters, the comparison of Chinese characters between China and Korea, the standardization of Chinese characters unicode in Chinese cultural sphere and the Chinese characters teaching in Korea. Meanwhile, this book also attaches an important significance to the Chinese characters studies by countries and the relevant teaching strategy from respective countries’ perspective.