Shuowen

Shuowen jiezi, Analysis of Characters as an Explanation of Writing

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China's first major dictionary was compiled in 100 C.E. by Xu Shen, the Shuowen jiezi (Analysis of Characters as an Explanation of Writing); it was both a distinguished scholarly achievement and served a standardizing role for the Chinese language.

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This allows him to assume the identity of the left-handed assassin Lao Ai, a historical personage whose name is famous enough, as the seducer of the emperor’s mother, to merit a gloss in the Shuowen, a Han dynasty lexicon.

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