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Shuowen Jiezi
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 meaningExplaining graphs and analyzing characters

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.

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Shuowen Jiezi

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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...

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List of Shuowen Jiezi radicals

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The Shuowen Jiezi dictionary created by Xu Shen uses 540 radicals to index its characters. List of Kangxi radicals - a system of 214 components used by...

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Xu Shen

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as a preeminent scholar of the Five Classics. He was the author of Shuowen Jiezi, which was the first comprehensive dictionary of Chinese characters...

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Chinese characters

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analysis revolved around a model first popularised in the 2nd-century Shuowen Jiezi dictionary. Newer models have since appeared, often attempting to describe...

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Wangliang

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389 BCE) Zuozhuan, 罔閬 in the (c. 91 BC) Shiji, and 蝄蜽 in the (121 AD) Shuowen jiezi (or possibly the Kongzi Jiayu of uncertain date). While liang (魎) only...

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Qilin

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221 BCE). Qi denotes the male and lin denotes the female according to Shuowen Jiezi. The legendary image of the qilin became associated with the image of...

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Duan Yucai

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Historical Chinese phonology, and is known for his annotated edition of Shuowen Jiezi. A native of Jintan, Jiangsu, he resigned his government post at the...

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Written Chinese

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supplanted the Shuowen Jiezi in terms of breadth, and it is still relevant to etymological research today. According to the Shuowen Jiezi, Chinese characters...

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Monkeys in Chinese culture

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Animal" taxonomy. The first Chinese character dictionary, the (121 CE) Shuowen Jiezi defines many names of simians, primarily under the (犬部 "dog/quadruped"...

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Chinese character classification

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that they do so only through association with the spoken word. The Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese dictionary compiled c. 100 CE by Xu Shen, divided characters...

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Chinese character radicals

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the Han dynasty scholar Xu Shen organized his etymological dictionary Shuowen Jiezi by selecting 540 recurring graphic elements he called bù (部 , "categories")...

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Chinese theology

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which falls and produces other fruits. This analogy is attested in the Shuowen Jiezi explaining "deity" as "what faces the base of a melon fruit". Tiān is...

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Zihui

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system for indexing Chinese characters, which replaced the classic Shuowen Jiezi dictionary's 540-radical system, and the radical-and-stroke sorting...

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Dongyi

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The (121 CE) Shuowen Jiezi 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 Shuowen Jiezi, under the...

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Zouyu

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gentle and strictly vegetarian, and described in some books (already in Shuowen Jiezi) as a white tiger with black spots. In 1404, during the reign of the...

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Shuowen tongxun dingsheng

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The Shuowen tongxun dingsheng (Chinese: 說文通訓定聲; pinyin: Shuōwén tōngxùn dìngshēng) is an 18-volume study of the Shuowen Jiezi completed in 1833 by the...

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Giant panda

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some ancient books has been interpreted as giant panda. The dictionary Shuowen Jiezi (Eastern Han Dynasty) says that the mo, from Shu (Sichuan), is bear-like...

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Yu the Great

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vessels which date back to the Western Zhou period (c. 1045–771 BCE). The Shuowen Jiezi (c. 121 CE) gives the earliest Chinese dictionary definition of yu 禹:...

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Confucian view of marriage

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same pronunciation as its phonetic component 因 (yīn). According to Shuowen Jiezi, a dictionary of ancient Chinese characters, 因 in this character is...

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Kangxi radical

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radicals is based on the older system of 540 radicals used in the Han-era Shuowen Jiezi. Since 2009, the Chinese Government has promoted a 201-radical system...

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Guzheng

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was originally developed as a bamboo-tube zither as recorded in the Shuowen Jiezi, which was later redesigned to be more like the se and made from larger...

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Tao

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the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary published in 121 CE, which describes it as a rare "compound ideogram" or "ideographic compound". According to the Shuowen Jiezi...

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List of radicals in Unicode

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Chinese dictionary List of Shuowen Jiezi radicals, a system of 540 components used by Xu Shen (d. ~147AD) in his Shuowen Jiezi List of Kangxi radicals,...

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Barbarian

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one earlier and one later, were identical." The prominent (121 CE) Shuowen Jiezi character dictionary, defines yi 夷 as "men of the east" 東方之人也. The dictionary...

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Qiulong

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notes the discrepancy of three Shuowen definitions for "hornless dragon": qiu 虯, jiao 蛟, and chi 螭. The Shuowen Jiezi scholar Zhu Junsheng 朱駿聲 (1788–1834...

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Hundun

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process of infinitely repeated moments of change and new creation. The Shuowen Jiezi does not enter dun 沌 (which apparently lacked a pre-Han Seal script)...

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