guǎng​yǎ​shū​zhèng

Guangya Shuzheng

广雅疏证 廣雅疏證 guǎng​yǎ​shū​zhèng
Guangya Shuzheng
The title of a famous Qing Dynasty philological work by Wang Niansun, which provides detailed corrections and annotations for the dictionary 广雅 guǎng​yǎ. Known for its method of using ancient phonology to determine the original meanings of words, it is a landmark study in Chinese historical linguistics. Sources disagree on whether it contains ten or twenty volumes.

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