xǔ​shèn

Xu Shen

  • created sense approved 许慎/許慎 · xǔ​shèn · Xu Shen — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    许慎 / 許慎

    xǔ​shèn

    Xu Shen

    Famous Eastern Han Dynasty scholar (c. 58–147 AD) and author of the [[说文解字|說文解字|shuo1 wen2 jie3 zi4]], the first dictionary to systematically analyze the forms and origins of Chinese characters.

    许 (literal) → 许/許 · xǔ · Xu 慎 (literal) → 慎 · shèn · Shen

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense