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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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Panini

Panini was a pioneering Indian linguist who lived around the mid-first millennium BCE. He developed the Ashtadhyayi, a c...

Indian Ancient Pioneering Sanskrit

9.20 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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Amarasimha

Amarasimha was an ancient Indian scholar renowned for compiling the Amarakosha, a foundational Sanskrit lexicon. This wo...

Indian Ancient Sanskrit Thesaurus

8.80 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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Aristophanes of Byzantium

Aristophanes of Byzantium was a lexicographer living in Alexandria during the Hellenistic period. He significantly contr...

Classical Ancient Greek Past

8.23 Great

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Wang Li

Wang Li was a prominent 20th-century Chinese lexicographer. His work significantly advanced understanding of Chinese wor...

Modern Chinese Past Word Families

8.08 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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Hesychius of Alexandria

Hesychius of Alexandria was a Greek grammarian, likely active in the 5th or 6th century, who compiled a comprehensive le...

Ancient Greek Lexicon Past

7.55 Good

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Verrius Flaccus

Verrius Flaccus was a prominent Roman grammarian and teacher who lived during the reign of Emperor Augustus. He is best...

Ancient Latin Past Orthography

7.38 Good

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Adolf Erman

Johann Peter Adolf Erman was a prominent German Egyptologist who made foundational contributions to the study of ancient...

Ancient Lexicon Egyptian Past

7.32 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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Julius Pollux

Julius Pollux was a Greek rhetorician, grammarian, and sophist from Naucratis who taught in Athens during the 2nd centur...

Ancient Greek Past Thesaurus

7.14 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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Nonius Marcellus

Nonius Marcellus was a late Roman grammarian and antiquarian, generally placed in the fourth century. His surviving work...

Ancient Lexicon Latin Past

6.86 Fair

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Sextus Pompeius Festus

Sextus Pompeius Festus was a Roman grammarian and lexicographer who probably worked during the second century CE. His su...

Ancient Latin Past Etymology

6.83 Fair

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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

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Philitas of Cos

Philitas of Cos was an ancient Greek scholar and poet associated with the early Hellenistic period. He is known as the a...

Ancient Greek Past Glossary

6.64 Fair