御定佩文韵府 (1711)

《御定佩文韵府》一〇六卷，清张玉书等奉敕编撰。

康熙四十三年（1704年），谕令张玉书、陈廷敬、李光地等七十六人编纂的一本韵母词典。成书于康熙五十年（1711年），“佩文”是康熙帝的书斋名，该书因此得名。康熙五十五年四月（1716年）又谕令王掞、王顼龄等人，就《佩文韵府》未收录的词藻或是未引用的文献资料再加以补充。康熙五十九年（1720）编成《韵府拾遗》，以补《佩文韵府》的遗漏，卷数也是一〇六卷，附刻于《佩文韵府》之后。《拾遗》的编辑体例与《佩文韵府》相同，分为“补藻”和“补注”两栏。乾隆年间修《四库全书》时，因病其原书篇页繁重，改为四百四十四卷，是《四库全书》中收录最多的著作。

《佩文韵府》是在元代阴时夫《韵府群玉》和明代凌稚隆《五车韵瑞》的基础上增补而成，是中国依韵排列规模最大的词典，全书收单字一万九千多个，典故大约有五十多万条，任何文章典故均辑录于此书。每个韵部排列同韵部的字，在字下列出以此字收尾的词。书中以单字统词语，按《平水韵》一〇六韵排列；每字的字头下，用反切注音，之后简括地训释及标明出处。收词又分“韵藻”、“增”、“对语”、“摘句”四类，凡是《韵府群玉》、《五车韵瑞》已收录的就称“韵藻”。

自颁布《佩文韵府》以来，该书成为科举考试时诗文用韵的标准。但《佩文韵府》篇帙浩繁，价格不菲，穷学生根本无力购置，而且不易携带亦是其缺点，所以有简版《诗韵集成》的出现。《佩文韵府》引文只列作者名字，多无书名、篇名，增加了查询的难度。另外，《佩文韵府》所据资料多由其他类书辗转钞录而来，核书不精、错讹杂出，因此错误甚多，大大降低其实用性。《佩文韵府》编纂的同时也编纂了《骈字类编》。

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《骈字类编》

The Peiwen Yunfu (simplified Chinese: 佩文韵府; traditional Chinese: 佩文韻府; pinyin: Pèiwén Yùnfǔ; Wade–Giles: P'ei-wen Yün-fu; lit. 'rime storehouse of esteemed phrases') is a 1711 Chinese rime dictionary of literary allusions and poetic dictions. Collated by tone and rime, the dictionary serves the composition of poetry.

Like the Kangxi dictionary, the Peiwen Yunfu was compiled under the patronage of the Kangxi Emperor, whose imperial library was named Peiwen ("esteem/admire writing/phrases/literature"). He believed that previous Chinese dictionaries of multiple-character phrases, including the Yuan Dynasty Yunfu qunyu (韻府群玉) and the Ming Dynasty Wuche yunrui (五車韻瑞), were incomplete and sometimes erroneous. Over twenty editors, including Zhang Yushu (張玉書, 1642–1711) and Chen Tingjing (陳廷敬, 1638–1712), began the compilation in 1704 and finished in 1711. In 1716, the emperor ordered the creation of a supplement, the Yunfu shiyi (韻府拾遺), which was completed in 1720.

The Peiwen yunfu is a large dictionary (212 卷 "volumes; fascicles") of two-, three-, and four-character idioms. It contains roughly 560,000 items under 10,257 entries arranged by 106 rhymes. Classical allusions and phrases are classified under the rhyme of their last character, with numerous quotations given to illustrate usage.

Although the Peiwen yunfu, which James Legge calls the "Kangxi Thesaurus", is less famous than the Kangxi dictionary, it can be helpful in tracing literary usages. "Whenever names or phrases are met with which are not understood," say Teng and Biggerstaff, "this is the first work which should be consulted."