Yiqiejing yinyi (Xuanying)

Yiqiejing yinyi (Xuanying)
Dunhuang manuscript (c. 8th century) Yiqiejing yinyi section for Mahāsāṃghika Śāriputraparipṛcchā (舍利弗問經)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese一切經音義
Simplified Chinese一切经音义
Literal meaningPronunciation and meaning in all the sutras
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYīqièjīng yīn-yì
Wade–GilesI-ch'ieh-ching yin-i
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingJat1-cai3-ging1 jam1-ji6
Southern Min
Hokkien POJIt-chhèkeng imgī
Middle Chinese
Middle ChineseʔJittshetkeng ʔimngje
Korean name
Hangul一切經音義
Hanja일체경음의
Transcriptions
McCune–ReischauerIlch'egyŏng ŭm'ŭi
Japanese name
Kanji一切經音義
Hiraganaいっさいきょうおんぎ
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnIssaikyō ongi

The Yiqiejing yinyi (c. 649) is the oldest surviving Chinese dictionary of technical Buddhist terminology, and the archetype for later Chinese bilingual dictionaries. This specialized glossary was compiled by the Tang dynasty lexicographer and monk Xuanying (玄應), who was a translator for the famous pilgrim and Sanskritist monk Xuanzang. When Xuanying died he had only finished 25 chapters of the dictionary, but in 807 another Tang monk named Huilin (慧琳) compiled an enlarged 100-chapter version bearing the same title.