Yupian

Yupian

The "Yupian" (zh-cpw|c=玉篇|p=Yùpiān|w=Yü-p'ien; "Jade Chapters") is a circa 543 CE Chinese dictionary edited by Gu Yewang (顧野王; Ku Yeh-wang; 519-581) during the Liang Dynasty. It arranges 12,158 character entries under 542 radicals, which differ somewhat from the original 540 in the "Shuowen Jiezi". Each character entry gives a fanqie pronunciation gloss and a definition, with occasional annotation.

Baxter describes the textual history:

The original "Yùpiān" was a large and unwieldy work of thirty "juàn" ["volumes; fascicles"] , and during Táng and Sòng various abridgements and revisions of it were made, which often altered the original "fănqiè" spellings; of the original version only fragments remain (some two thousand entries out of a reported original total of 16,917), and the currently-available version of the "Yùpiān" is not a reliable guide to Early Middle Chinese phonology. (1992: 40-41)
In 760, during the Tang Dynasty, Sun Jiang (孫強; Sun Chiang) compiled a "Yupian" edition, which he noted had a total of 51,129 words, less than a third of the original 158,641. In 1013, Song Dynasty scholar Chen Pengnian (陳彭年; Ch'en P'eng-nien) published a revised "Daguang yihui Yupian" (大廣益會玉篇; "Expanded and enlarged Jade Chapters"). The Japanese monk Kūkai brought an original version "Yupian" back from China in 806, and modified it into his circa 830 "Tenrei Banshō Meigi", which is the oldest extant Japanese dictionary.

References

*Baxter, William H. 1992. "A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology". Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-012324-X

External links

* [http://www.mojikyo.org/html/abroad/bulletin02/020406.htm A Prospect for the Restoration of the Original Text of "Yu p'ien"] , Mojikyo Institute's collaborative project
* [http://homepage3.nifty.com/shikeda/kkg178.html A Database for Tenrei-Bansho-Meigi 篆隷万象名義データベース] , Ikeda Shoju (in Japanese)


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Huang Yupian — (黃育楩 Pinyin: Huáng Yùpián , Wade Giles: Huang Yüp ien ) is best known as the author of A Detailed Refutation of Heresy (破邪詳辯 Pōxié Xiángbiàn ), written in 1838. A native of Gansu province, he served as the magistrate of Qinghe (清河) county in… …   Wikipedia

  • Japanese dictionary — Japanese dictionaries have a history that began over 1300 years ago when Japanese Buddhist priests, who wanted to understand Chinese sutras, adapted Chinese character dictionaries. Present day Japanese lexicographers are exploring computerized… …   Wikipedia

  • Wagokuhen — The was a circa 1489 CE Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters. This early Muromachi Period Japanization was based upon the circa 543 CE Chinese Yupian (玉篇 Jade Chapters ), as available in the 1013 CE Daguang yihui Yupian (大廣益會玉篇; Enlarged and …   Wikipedia

  • Tenrei Banshō Meigi — The is the oldest extant Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters. The title is also written 篆隷万象名義 with the modern graphic variant ban (万 10,000; myriad ) for ban (萬 10,000; myriad ).The prominent Heian Period monk and scholar Kūkai, founder of …   Wikipedia

  • Shinsen Jikyō — The is the first Japanese dictionary containing native kun yomi Japanese readings of Chinese characters. The title is also written 新選字鏡 with the graphic variant sen ( choose; select; elect ) for sen ( compile; compose; edit ).The Heian Period… …   Wikipedia

  • Rakuyōshū — The was a 1598 Japanese dictionary of kanji Chinese characters and compounds in three parts. The Jesuit Mission Press published it at Nagasaki along with other early Japanese language reference works, such as the 1603 Nippo Jisho Japanese… …   Wikipedia

  • Erya — Traditional Chinese 爾雅 Simplified Chinese 尔雅 Transcriptions …   Wikipedia

  • Chinese dictionary — Chinese dictionaries date back over two millennia to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which is a significantly longer lexicographical history than any other language. There are hundreds of dictionaries for Chinese, and this article will introduce some… …   Wikipedia

  • Ruiju Myōgishō — The Ruiju myōgishō (類聚名義抄?, Classified dictionary of pronunciations and meanings, annotated ), alternatively misread as Ruijū myōgishō, is a Japanese dictionary from the late Heian Period. The title, sometimes abbreviated as Myōgishō, combines… …   Wikipedia

  • Zhonghua Zihai — (simplified Chinese: 中华字海; traditional Chinese: 中華字海; …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”