The ''Jiyun'' (''Chi-yun''; ) is a Chinese

rime dictionary A rime dictionary, rhyme dictionary, or rime book () is a genre of dictionary that records pronunciations for Chinese characters by tone and rhyme, instead of by graphical means like their radicals. The most important rime dictionary tradition ...

published in 1037 during the

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. The chief editor Ding Du (丁度) and others expanded and revised the ''

Guangyun The ''Guangyun'' (''Kuang-yun''; ) is a Chinese rhyme dictionary that was compiled from 1007 to 1008 under the patronage of Emperor Zhenzong of Song. Its full name was ''Dà Sòng chóngxiū guǎngyùn'' (, literally "Great Song revised and ...

''. It is possible, according to Teng and Biggerstaff (1971:147), that

Sima Guang Sima Guang (17 November 1019 – 11 October 1086), courtesy name Junshi, was a Chinese historian, politician, and writer. He was a high-ranking Song dynasty scholar-official who authored the ''Zizhi Tongjian'', a monumental work of history. B ...

completed the text in 1067. The ''Jiyun'' has 53,525 character entries (Teng & Biggerstaff, 1971: 147), approximately twice as many as the ''Guangyun'', and likewise has 206 rime groups.

References

* Teng, Ssu-yü and Biggerstaff, Knight. 1971. ''An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works'', 3rd ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Chinese dictionaries Song dynasty literature Middle Chinese Traditional Chinese phonology 11th-century Chinese books {{Chinese-char-stub

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