Erya

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
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinĚryǎ
Wade–GilesErh3-ya3
IPA[àɚ.jà]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationYíh-ngáah
JyutpingJi5-ngaa5
IPA[ji˩˧.ŋa˩˧]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJNí-ngá
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese/ȵiᴇX ŋˠaX/
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)*n[e][r]ʔ N-ɢˤraʔ
Zhengzhang/*njelʔ ŋraːʔ/
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetNhĩ Nhã
Chữ Hán爾雅
Korean name
Hangul이아
Hanja爾雅
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationIa
Japanese name
Kanji爾雅
Kanaじが
Transcriptions
RomanizationJiga

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."[1]

  1. ^ Karlgren 1931, p. 49.