Cover of a modern reprint of a Song dynasty 'veritable edition' (zhēnběn真本) of the Shuowen Jiezi
Traditional Chinese
說文解字
Simplified Chinese
说文解字
Literal meaning
Explaining graphs and analyzing characters
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Shuōwén jiězì
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Shuowen jieetzyh
Wade–Giles
Shuo1-wen2 chieh3-tzŭ4
IPA
[ʂwó.wə̌n tɕjè.tsɨ̂]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Syut-màhn gáai-jih
Jyutping
Syut3-man4 gaai2-zi6
IPA
[syːt̚˧.mɐn˩ kaːi˧˥.tsiː˨]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Soat-bûn kái-jī
Tâi-lô
Suat-bûn kái-jī
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese
Syiwet-mɨun KeXdziH
The Shuowen Jiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–206 CE). While prefigured by earlier Chinese character reference works like the Erya (c. 3rd century BCE), the Shuowen Jiezi featured the first comprehensive analysis of characters in terms of their structure, and attempted to provide a rationale for their construction. It was also the first to organize its entries into sections according to shared components called radicals.
The ShuowenJiezi is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen c. 100 CE, during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–206 CE). While prefigured by earlier Chinese...
The ShuowenJiezi dictionary created by Xu Shen uses 540 radicals to index its characters. List of Kangxi radicals - a system of 214 components used by...
analysis revolved around a model first popularised in the 2nd-century ShuowenJiezi dictionary. Newer models have since appeared, often attempting to describe...
389 BCE) Zuozhuan, 罔閬 in the (c. 91 BC) Shiji, and 蝄蜽 in the (121 AD) Shuowenjiezi (or possibly the Kongzi Jiayu of uncertain date). While liang (魎) only...
221 BCE). Qi denotes the male and lin denotes the female according to ShuowenJiezi. The legendary image of the qilin became associated with the image of...
Historical Chinese phonology, and is known for his annotated edition of ShuowenJiezi. A native of Jintan, Jiangsu, he resigned his government post at the...
supplanted the ShuowenJiezi in terms of breadth, and it is still relevant to etymological research today. According to the ShuowenJiezi, Chinese characters...
Animal" taxonomy. The first Chinese character dictionary, the (121 CE) ShuowenJiezi defines many names of simians, primarily under the (犬部 "dog/quadruped"...
that they do so only through association with the spoken word. The ShuowenJiezi, a Chinese dictionary compiled c. 100 CE by Xu Shen, divided characters...
the Han dynasty scholar Xu Shen organized his etymological dictionary ShuowenJiezi by selecting 540 recurring graphic elements he called bù (部 , "categories")...
which falls and produces other fruits. This analogy is attested in the ShuowenJiezi explaining "deity" as "what faces the base of a melon fruit". Tiān is...
The (121 CE) ShuowenJiezi character dictionary, defines yí 夷 as "people of the east, big 大 bow 弓" 東方之人也從大從弓. Elsewhere in the ShuowenJiezi, under the...
gentle and strictly vegetarian, and described in some books (already in ShuowenJiezi) as a white tiger with black spots. In 1404, during the reign of the...
The Shuowen tongxun dingsheng (Chinese: 說文通訓定聲; pinyin: Shuōwén tōngxùn dìngshēng) is an 18-volume study of the ShuowenJiezi completed in 1833 by the...
some ancient books has been interpreted as giant panda. The dictionary ShuowenJiezi (Eastern Han Dynasty) says that the mo, from Shu (Sichuan), is bear-like...
vessels which date back to the Western Zhou period (c. 1045–771 BCE). The ShuowenJiezi (c. 121 CE) gives the earliest Chinese dictionary definition of yu 禹:...
radicals is based on the older system of 540 radicals used in the Han-era ShuowenJiezi. Since 2009, the Chinese Government has promoted a 201-radical system...
was originally developed as a bamboo-tube zither as recorded in the ShuowenJiezi, which was later redesigned to be more like the se and made from larger...
the ShuowenJiezi dictionary published in 121 CE, which describes it as a rare "compound ideogram" or "ideographic compound". According to the Shuowen Jiezi...
Chinese dictionary List of ShuowenJiezi radicals, a system of 540 components used by Xu Shen (d. ~147AD) in his ShuowenJiezi List of Kangxi radicals,...
one earlier and one later, were identical." The prominent (121 CE) ShuowenJiezi character dictionary, defines yi 夷 as "men of the east" 東方之人也. The dictionary...
notes the discrepancy of three Shuowen definitions for "hornless dragon": qiu 虯, jiao 蛟, and chi 螭. The ShuowenJiezi scholar Zhu Junsheng 朱駿聲 (1788–1834...
process of infinitely repeated moments of change and new creation. The ShuowenJiezi does not enter dun 沌 (which apparently lacked a pre-Han Seal script)...