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- The Fāngyán, edited by Yang Xiong, was the first Chinese dictionary of dialectal terms. The full title is Yóuxuān shǐzhĕ juédài yǔ shì biéguó fāngyán (輶軒使者絕代語釋別國方言) "Local speeches of other countries in times immemorial explained by the Light-Carriage Messenger," which alludes to a Zhou Dynasty tradition of imperial emissaries who made annual surveys of regional vocabulary throughout China. Yang's preface explains that he spent 27 years collating and editing the Fangyan, which has some 9000 characters in 13 chapters (卷). Fangyan definitions typically list regional synonyms. For instance, chapter 8, which catalogs animal names, gives regional words for hu (虎 "tiger") in Han times. (虎, 陳魏宋楚之間或謂之李父, 江淮南楚之間謂之李耳, 或謂之於菟. 自關東西或謂之伯都. ) "Tiger: in the regions of Chen-Wei Song-Chu [Central China], some call it lifu; in the regions of Jiang-Huai Nan-Chu [Southern China], they call it li'er, and some call it wutu. From the Pass, east- and west-ward [Eastern and Western China], some call it also bodu. " Comparative linguists have used dialect data from the Fangyan in reconstructing how Chinese was pronounced during the 1st century CE, which is an important diachronic stage between Old Chinese and Middle Chinese. In the above example, Serruys reconstructs "tiger" as Old Chinese *blxâg. The Chinese word fangyan is a compound of fang 方 "direction; locality; side; place; region; area" and yan 言 "speech; talk; language; word; saying". Fangyan semantically ranges across "language", "regional language", "variety", and "dialect" in comparative linguistics terminology, which involve criteria of mutual intelligibility, vocabulary, idiom, and pronunciation. Chinese fangyan is usually, but problematically, translated as English "dialect". Regarding the differences between fangyan and dialect, Victor H. Mair says, It is no wonder that massive confusion results when one is used as a translational equivalent of the other. The abuse of the word fangyan in its incorrect English translation as "dialect" has led to extensive misinformation concerning Chinese language(s) in the West. Two English neologisms have been coined to remedy this mistranslation of fangyan. John DeFrancis suggests regionalect for the mutually unintelligible varieties of Chinese, leaving dialect for the mutually intelligible sub-varieties. Mair suggests topolect, which is fully Greek in derivation and size-neutral in regard to the speech area.. Although these fangyan distinctions may seem like pedantic hair-splitting, this word is crucial in some political, social, and linguistic arguments whether Chinese consists of "dialects" or "languages". Julie M. Groves (2008) analyzes attitudes among native speakers of Cantonese and Putonghua whether Cantonese is a language or a dialect, or whether it in fact fits the concept of a 'topolect' better.
- 《輶軒使者絕代語釋別國方言》，簡稱《方言》，西漢揚雄著，是中国第一部记录方言的著作。
- Фанъянь (方言, Fāngyán) — первый словарь китайских диалектов, ред. Ян Сюн (扬雄, 53 до н. э — 18 н. э. , дин. Западная Хань); является одним из важнейших источников по диалектологии древнекитайского языка. Полное название словаря (輶軒使者絕代語釋別國方言, Yóuxuān shǐzhĕ juédài yǔ shì biéguó fāngyán) отсылает к имперской традиции династии Чжоу, которая предписывала ежегодные эмиссарские путешествия с целью изучения местных диалектов. В предисловии Ян повествует, что словарь является плодом 27-летней работы, включая в себя 9000 иероглифов. Состоит из 13 тематических глав (цзюаней, 卷). Построен по принципу выстраивания параллелей между синонимами. Так, например, гл.8 (названия животных), гласит: 虎, 陳魏宋楚之間或謂之李父, 江淮南楚之間謂之李耳, 或謂之於菟. 自關東西或謂之伯都 Тигр: в регионах Чен-Вэй Сун-Чу /центр. Китай/ иногда называется лифу (李父); в регионах Цзян-Хуай Нань-Чу /южн. Китай/ зовётся лиэр (李耳) или уту (於菟); к востоку и западу from the Pass иногда зовётся боду (伯都)
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- 《輶軒使者絕代語釋別國方言》，簡稱《方言》，西漢揚雄著，是中国第一部记录方言的著作。
- The Fāngyán, edited by Yang Xiong, was the first Chinese dictionary of dialectal terms. The full title is Yóuxuān shǐzhĕ juédài yǔ shì biéguó fāngyán (輶軒使者絕代語釋別國方言) "Local speeches of other countries in times immemorial explained by the Light-Carriage Messenger," which alludes to a Zhou Dynasty tradition of imperial emissaries who made annual surveys of regional vocabulary throughout China.
- Фанъянь (方言, Fāngyán) — первый словарь китайских диалектов, ред. Ян Сюн (扬雄, 53 до н. э — 18 н. э. , дин. Западная Хань); является одним из важнейших источников по диалектологии древнекитайского языка. Полное название словаря (輶軒使者絕代語釋別國方言, Yóuxuān shǐzhĕ juédài yǔ shì biéguó fāngyán) отсылает к имперской традиции династии Чжоу, которая предписывала ежегодные эмиссарские путешествия с целью изучения местных диалектов.
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