Guangyun

The Guangyun (simplified Chinese: 广韵; traditional Chinese: 廣韻; pinyin: Guǎngyùn; Wade–Giles: Kuang Yün; literally "Broad/Extensive Rimes") is a Chinese rime dictionary that was compiled from 1007 to 1011 under the auspices of Emperor Zhenzong of Song. Chen Pengnian ([陳彭年] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language tag: zh-t (help), 961-1017) and Qiu Yong ([邱雍] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language tag: zh-t (help)) were the chief editors. In the history of Chinese lexicography, the Guangyun stands between the Qieyun and the Jiyun.

It was originally split into four tones in five volumes, two belonging to the Middle Chinese level tone ([平聲] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language tag: zh-t (help)), one each for the other three Middle Chinese tones, rising tone ([上聲] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language tag: zh-t (help)), departing tone ([去聲] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language tag: zh-t (help)), and entering tone ([入聲] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language tag: zh-t (help)). Each tone was split into rimes, and under each rimes were grouped characters of the same onset, and under each entry, was given a brief explanation of its meaning. The Guangyun has a total of 26,194 character entries, which are arranged under 206 final rimes, increased from 193 in the Qieyun (Teng and Biggerstaff 1971: 146).

Unicode digitally reincarnated the Guangyun. The Unihan database incorporates the "SBGY" (Songben Guangyun; "Song edition Guangyun") dataset with 25,334 head-entries for 19,583 characters .

See also

• Rime table
• Rime dictionary

References

• Teng, Ssu-yü and Biggerstaff, Knight. 1971. An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works, 3rd ed. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-03851-7

External links

• GuangYun Initials and Rhymes, Dylan W.H. Sung