The Guangya was an early 3rd century CE Chinese dictionary, edited by Zhang Yi (張揖; Chang I; fl. 227-232) during the Three Kingdoms period. It was later called the Boya (博雅; Bóyǎ; Po-ya; "Broadened ya") owing to naming taboo on Yang Guang (楊廣), which was the birth name of Emperor Yang of Sui. Zhang Yi wrote the Guangya as a supplement to the centuries older Erya dictionary.

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  • The Guangya was an early 3rd century CE Chinese dictionary, edited by Zhang Yi (張揖; Chang I; fl. 227-232) during the Three Kingdoms period. It was later called the Boya (博雅; Bóyǎ; Po-ya; "Broadened ya") owing to naming taboo on Yang Guang (楊廣), which was the birth name of Emperor Yang of Sui. Zhang Yi wrote the Guangya as a supplement to the centuries older Erya dictionary. He used the same 19 chapter divisions into lexical categories, and numerous Guangya entries are abstract words under the first three chapters Shigu (釋詁 "Explaining Old Words"), Shiyan (釋言 "Explaining Words"), and Shixun (釋訓 "Explaining Instructions"). The Qing Dynasty philologist Wang Niansun spent a decade studying this dictionary, and his Guangya shuzheng (廣雅疏證 "Guangya Annotations and Proofs") is still considered the authoritative edition, in which he demonstrated the important philological principle of "looking for the ancient meaning by considering the ancient sound ... not constrained by the structure of the character" (就古音以求古義...... 不限形體). His preface notes the Guangya has 2343 entries and a total of 18,150 characters (the received text has 17,326), including corrections and emendations, which is about 5000 more than the received Erya. The linguist Zhou Fagao edited an index (1977) to the Guangya.
  • 廣雅是中國古代百科詞典，仿照爾雅體裁的訓詁彙編，形同爾雅的續篇，共分19類。主要不同的地方是取材範圍比爾雅更廣泛。
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  • The Guangya was an early 3rd century CE Chinese dictionary, edited by Zhang Yi (張揖; Chang I; fl. 227-232) during the Three Kingdoms period. It was later called the Boya (博雅; Bóyǎ; Po-ya; "Broadened ya") owing to naming taboo on Yang Guang (楊廣), which was the birth name of Emperor Yang of Sui. Zhang Yi wrote the Guangya as a supplement to the centuries older Erya dictionary.
  • 廣雅是中國古代百科詞典，仿照爾雅體裁的訓詁彙編，形同爾雅的續篇，共分19類。主要不同的地方是取材範圍比爾雅更廣泛。
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  • Guangya
  • 廣雅
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