Erya

The Erya or Erh-ya is the first surviving Chinese dictionary. The sinologist Bernhard Karlgren concluded that "the major part of its glosses must reasonably date from the 3rd century BC."

Erya
Erya exhibit at Chinese Dictionary Museum (Jincheng, Shanxi Province)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese爾雅
Simplified Chinese尔雅
Literal meaningapproaching what is correct
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetNhĩ Nhã
Chữ Hán爾雅
Korean name
Hangul이아
Hanja爾雅
Japanese name
Kanji爾雅
Kanaじが
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