Guangyun
Chinese dictionary
Also known as: “Kuang-yün”
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Chinese characters
- In Chinese languages: Qin dynasty standardization
The Guangyun dictionary of 1008 had 26,194 characters (representing 3,877 different syllables in pronunciation). The Kangxi zidian, a dictionary of 1716, contains 40,545 characters, of which, however, fewer than one-fourth were in actual use at the time. The number of absolutely necessary characters has probably never…
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