Chinese characters are an important symbol and carrier of Chinese civilization. The inheritance and dissemination of Chinese characters are the two wings of Chinese culture. In addition to the past handed down and unearthed documents, the study of Chinese characters in the new era has entered the cross-cultural field. The study of cross-cultural Chinese characters has become a new trend in the study of Chinese characters, that is, using cross-cultural methods to study Chinese characters and Research on Chinese characters in a cross-cultural environment. The current cross-cultural Chinese character research has made many achievements in the history of Chinese character transmission, the collation of foreign Chinese books and Chinese character materials, and the comparison of crosscultural Chinese characters. The foreign Chinese books and Chinese character materials produced by Chinese characters in a cross-cultural environment show the distinctive characteristics of Chinese characters under the influence of different cultural factors.