thumb|right|upright|The Shuowen Jiezi entry for 'child', showing the small seal script (top right), ancient script (top left), and Zhou script (bottom left) forms. thumb|upright|page=21|A page from a commentary on the work by Wang Guowei The Shizhoupian () is the first known Chinese dictionary, and was written in the ancient large seal script. The work was traditionally dated to the reign of King Xuan of Zhou (827–782 BCE), but many modern scholars assign it to the state of Qin in the Warring States period (221 BCE). The text is no longer fully extant, and it is now known only throug
thumb|right|upright|The Shuowen Jiezi entry for 'child', showing the small seal script (top right), ancient script (top left), and Zhou script (bottom left) forms. thumb|upright|page=21|A page from a commentary on the work by Wang Guowei The Shizhoupian () is the first known Chinese dictionary, and was written in the ancient large seal script. The work was traditionally dated to the reign of King Xuan of Zhou (827–782 BCE), but many modern scholars assign it to the state of Qin in the Warring States period (221 BCE). The text is no longer fully extant, and it is now known only through fragments.
==History== The Shizhoupian dictionary, which was probably compiled sometime between 700 BCE to 200 BCE, originally consisted of 15 chapters ( ), but six were lost by the reign of Emperor Guangwu of Han (25–56 CE) and the other nine chapters, except for scattered references, were lost by the Jin dynasty (266–420).
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).