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Also known as The Literary Expositor, The Ready Rectifier, Progress Towards Correctness, The Semantic Approximator, Near Correct, Approaching Elegance

The Erya or Erh-ya is the first surviving Chinese dictionary. The sinologist Bernhard Karlgren concluded that "the major part of its glosses must reasonably date from the 3rd century BC."

Key facts

Chinese.s
尔雅
Chinese.p
Ěryǎ
Chinese.j
Ji5-ngaa5
Chinese.title
Erya
Chinese.pic
Erya Zhushu - Chinese Dictionary Museum.JPG
Chinese.piccap
Erya exhibit at Chinese Dictionary Museum (Jincheng, Shanxi)
Chinese.l
approaching what is correct
Chinese.y
Yíh-ngáah
Chinese.poj
Ní-ngá
Chinese.oc bs
*n[e][r]ʔ N-ɢˤraʔ
Chinese.qn
Nhĩ Nhã
Chinese.chuhan
爾雅
Chinese.kanji
爾雅
Chinese.kana
じが
Chinese.romaji
Jiga
Chinese.hangul
이아
Chinese.hanja
爾雅
Chinese.rr
Ia

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Wikidata facts

Country of origin
Han dynasty
Image
Erya Zhushu - Chinese Dictionary Museum.JPG
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publication date
0300-00-00
title
爾雅
Commons category
Erya
copyright status
public domain
described by source
Gujin Tushu Jicheng
language of work or name
Old Chinese
form of creative work
encyclopedia
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