The ''Shuowen tongxun dingsheng'' ( zh, t=說文通訓定聲, p=Shuōwén tōngxùn dìngshēng) is an 18-volume study of the ''

Shuowen Jiezi The ''Shuowen Jiezi'' is a Chinese dictionary compiled by Xu Shen , during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). While prefigured by earlier reference works for Chinese characters like the ''Erya'' (), the ''Shuowen Jiezi'' contains the ...

'' completed in 1833 by the Qing phonologist Zhu Junsheng () (1788–1858) and published in 1870. The bulk of the work is a phonetic study in which the 9000 characters of the ''Shuowen Jiezi'' and 7000 additional characters are grouped into 1137 series, each sharing a phonetic element. These phonetic series were further grouped into 18 ''

Shijing The ''Classic of Poetry'', also ''Shijing'' or ''Shih-ching'', translated variously as the ''Book of Songs'', ''Book of Odes'', or simply known as the ''Odes'' or ''Poetry'' (; ''Shī''), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, co ...

'' rhyme groups, based on

Duan Yucai Duan Yucai () (1735–1815), courtesy name Ruoying () was a Chinese philology, philologist of the Qing Dynasty. He made great contributions to the study of Historical Chinese phonology, and is known for his annotated edition of ''Shuowen Jiezi''. ...

's dictum that characters sharing a phonetic element belonged in the same rhyme group. The work thus anticipated the structure of

Bernard Karlgren Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren (; 15 October 1889 – 20 October 1978) was a Swedish sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods. In the early 20th century, Karlgren conduct ...

's '' Grammata Serica Recensa''. The work also includes very detailed notes on rhyming, semantics, and interchangeable characters.

References

* p. 439. * *

External links

''Shuowen tongxun dingsheng''
at the Internet Archive
''Shuowen tongxun dingsheng''
at the Chinese Text Project Chinese dictionaries {{Chinese-char-stub