Basic and General Vocabulary in Chinese

There are many kinds of standards to classify the Chinese words. According to the popular classifying way, students who study Chinese can see two types of Chinese words, the basic vocabulary and the general vocabulary. when you come to study Chinese in Chinese school, teachers may tell you that the latter one includes the new words, the ancient words, dialects words, the loan words and industry terms and so on. Therefore, these types of words mentioned above can‘t be the basic words.

However, when you study in Chinese language program in China, you should notice that the dialects words, the loan words and the industry words are divided according to the origin while the new words and ancient words are divided from the views of appearance times. These standards for classifying the words are not in contradiction. Therefore, when you study Chinese, you may hear some people say the new words should not only belong to the general vocabulary, but the member of all general vocabulary. And there should be some loan words and dialects words in the basic vocabulary.