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Duan Yucai

Across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Qing dynasty scholar Duan Yucai advanced the study of historical C...

Classical Historical Chinese 18TH 19TH Century

9.52 Brilliant

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Mei Yingzuo

Mei Yingzuo was a Ming Dynasty scholar and lexicographer associated with Zihui, a Chinese character dictionary published...

Classical Chinese Ming Dynasty Character Dictionary

9.21 Excellent

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Chen Tingjing

Chen Tingjing (1634-1712) was a Qing dynasty scholar-official from Shanxi who held senior government posts and participa...

Classical Comprehensive Chinese Qing Dynasty

9.02 Excellent

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James Murray

James Murray dedicated his life to documenting the history of the English language. As chief editor of the Oxford Englis...

Historical English Past Oed

8.94 Great

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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (c. 754 – c. 815) was an 8th-century scholar from Basra. He is primarily known for his *...

Classical Early Arabic Past

8.78 Great

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Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm was a prominent German lexicographer and philologist. He is best known for his extensive work on the Deutsch...

German Historical Past Grimm

8.72 Great

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Noah Webster

Noah Webster was a prominent 19th-century American lexicographer. He developed standardized spellings and definitions fo...

American English Past Webster

8.67 Great

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Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud al-Kashgari was a 11th-century lexicographer who created the *Diwan Lughat al-Turk*. This seminal work, produced...

Classical Arabic Past Turkic

8.61 Great

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Xu Shen

Xu Shen was a prominent scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. He is best known for his meticulous work compiling...

Ancient Chinese Past Characters

8.61 Great

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Ibn Manzur

Ibn Manzur (d. 1294) was a prominent Islamic scholar and lexicographer renowned for his monumental work, Lisan al-Arab....

Classical Arabic Past Lisan

8.57 Great

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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić significantly shaped modern Serbian. He created the *Srpski rječnik* in 1818, a foundational dic...

General National Past Serbian

8.50 Great

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Konrad Duden

Konrad Duden was a prominent German lexicographer best known for his 1880 *Deutsches Wörterbuch*. This comprehensive dic...

German General Past Orthography

8.45 Great

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Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda was a pivotal figure in modern Persian scholarship. He meticulously compiled Loghat-nameh, a comprehe...

Modern Persian Past Encyclopedic

8.39 Great

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Pierre Larousse

Pierre Larousse was a prominent French lexicographer best known for his Grand Dictionnaire universel. This encyclopedic...

French General Past Encyclopedic

8.39 Great

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Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane was a 19th-century lexicographer renowned for his comprehensive Arabic-English Lexicon. Published be...

English Arabic Bilingual Past

8.37 Great

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Vladimir Dahl

Vladimir Dahl was a prominent Russian lexicographer best known for his comprehensive Explanatory Dictionary of the Livin...

Russian General Folklore Past

8.35 Great

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Robert Morrison

Robert Morrison was a Scottish Protestant missionary and lexicographer who produced the first Chinese-English dictionary...

English Chinese Bilingual Past

7.69 Good

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James Legge

James Legge (1815–1897) was a Scottish sinologist and missionary who served as the first Professor of Chinese at the Uni...

English Chinese Bilingual Past

7.17 Good

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Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang was a highly influential Chinese writer, translator, and linguist known for bridging Eastern and Western cult...

English Chinese Bilingual Past

7.07 Good

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Samuel Wells Williams

Samuel Wells Williams was an American missionary, diplomat, sinologist, and linguist who spent much of his career workin...

English Chinese Past Cantonese

6.71 Fair