The “Chinese Inventory 2025” event, co-hosted by the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center, the Commercial Press, and Xinhuanet, unveiled the 2025 “Word of the Year” in Beijing on December 19. According to netizens' recommendations, corpus big data extraction, and expert reviews, the domestic word for 2025 is “tough”, and the domestic word of the year is “deep search”. This year is the 20th year that the “Chinese Inventory” campaign has been held. The event encourages people to use language to record their lives and describe social changes from a Chinese perspective. The organizer said that in the future, the “Chinese Inventory” will continue to use Chinese as the medium to inject the power of language into promoting cultural heritage and mutual appreciation of civilizations.

The “Chinese Inventory 2025” event, co-hosted by the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center, the Commercial Press, and Xinhuanet, unveiled the 2025 “Word of the Year” in Beijing on December 19. According to netizens' recommendations, corpus big data extraction, and expert reviews, the domestic word for 2025 is “tough”, and the domestic word of the year is “deep search”. This year is the 20th year that the “Chinese Inventory” campaign has been held. The event encourages people to use language to record their lives and describe social changes from a Chinese perspective. The organizer said that in the future, the “Chinese Inventory” will continue to use Chinese as the medium to inject the power of language into promoting cultural heritage and mutual appreciation of civilizations.