Erya

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Erya
Erya exhibit at Chinese Dictionary Museum (Jincheng, Shanxi Province)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	爾雅
Simplified Chinese	尔雅
Literal meaning	approaching what is correct
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Ěryǎ Wade–Giles Erh3-ya3 IPA [àɚ.jà] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Yíh-ngáah Jyutping Ji5-ngaa5 IPA [jiː˩˧.ŋaː˩˧] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Ní-ngá Middle Chinese Middle Chinese /ȵiᴇX ŋˠaX/ Old Chinese Baxter–Sagart (2014) *n[e][r]ʔ N-ɢˤraʔ Zhengzhang /*njelʔ ŋraːʔ/
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	Nhĩ Nhã
Chữ Hán	爾雅
Korean name
Hangul	이아
Hanja	爾雅
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Ia
Japanese name
Kanji	爾雅
Kana	じが
Transcriptions Romanization Jiga

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]