Records of the Three Kingdoms

*Records of the Three Kingdoms*
Records of the Three Kingdoms
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	三國志/誌
Simplified Chinese	三国志
Literal meaning	Historical Records of the Three Kingdoms
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Sānguó zhì
Bopomofo	ㄙㄢㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄓˋ
Wade–Giles	San1-kuo2 Chih4
IPA	[sán kwǒ ʈʂɨ̂]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Sāam gwok ji
Jyutping	Saam1 gwok3 zi3
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Sam-kok-chì
Tâi-lô	Sam-kok-tsì
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	Tam quốc chí
Hán-Nôm	三國志
Korean name
Hangul	삼국지
Hanja	三國志
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Samgukji
Japanese name
Hiragana	さんごくし
Kyūjitai	三國志
Shinjitai	三国志
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	Sangokushi

Records of the Three Kingdoms
	A fragment of the biography of Bu Zhi from the Records of the Three Kingdoms, part of the Dunhuang manuscripts
Author	Chen Shou
Original title	三國志
Country	China
Language	Classical Chinese
Subject	History of the Three Kingdoms period
Publication date	280s or 290s

The Records of the Three Kingdoms (traditional Chinese: 三國志; simplified Chinese: 三国志; pinyin: Sānguó zhì), is a Chinese imperial history that covers the end of the Han dynasty (c. 184–220 CE) and the following Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE). It is widely regarded as the official and authoritative source text for these periods. Written by Chen Shou after the Jin dynasty reunited China in the third century, the work compiles the political, social, and military events within rival states Cao Wei, Shu Han and Eastern Wu into a single text organized by individual biography.

The Records of the Three Kingdoms is the main source of information for the 14th century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, considered to be one of China's four great novels.

While large subsections of the work have been selected and translated into English, the entire corpus has yet to receive an unabridged English translation.