Word bit
Word or word (English: grapheme) the term, by the phonetics in the "phonemes" (phonemes) class to the philology. In the phonetic alphabet system, "word" is the smallest, the smallest number of different units. "Bit" is an abstract unit. For example, the word \u0026 lt; a \u0026 gt ;, regardless of its form is A, a, or α, they are different from b, c, d, etc., so, A, a, α still belong to a unit, a \u0026 gt; word bit. The composition of a word bit is called "word variants" (allographs). When calculating the size of a text system, it is calculated as the smallest unit of the word bit, rather than the word bit variant. Such as: the English alphabet, although printed with 52 case variant, but still speak English letters 26, or 26 words. Calculate the number of Chinese characters, usually calculated in accordance with the glyphs, that is, a representative of the same speech semantics of the simplified, traditional, allogeneic, new glyphs, old glyphs, etc. were calculated. This calculation is actually in the calculation of variants. So, for a long time wrong to the large dictionary of income in the number of words as the size of the Chinese character system. In 2004, the number of variants included in several large Chinese dictionaries was studied in Germany. The results are as follows: 1.