Guangya 廣こう雅みやび

Guangya 廣こう雅みやび "Extended [Er]ya" is a glossary compiled during the Three Empires period 三さん國こく (220-280) by Zhang Yi 張ちょう揖 (early 3rd cent.), courtesy name Zhirang 稚やや讓ゆずる.

It was written as an extension of the glossary Erya 爾しか雅みやび, which is only quite selective and does not cover all words in the sense of a dictionary. The arrangement follows that of the Erya. In bibliographies, the Guangya belongs to the category of books of "lesser learning" (Xiaoxue 小學しょうがく), often translated as "lexicography".

The Guangya includes many sources from the Han period 漢かん (206 BCE-220 CE), including contemporary dictionaries like the Fangyan 方言ほうげん and the Shuowen jiezi 說せつ文ぶん解かい字じ. The Guangya was originally divided into 3 juan, but was rearranged during the Sui period 隋ずい (581-618), when Cao Xian 曹憲 (c. 541-645) wrote phonetic comments to the Guangya glossary. During this time the title was changed to Boya 博雅はくが in order to avoid the personal name of emperor Sui Yangdi 隋ずい煬帝 (r. 604-617), Yang Guang 楊廣. After the Sui period the title was changed back to Guangya.

The version including Cao's commentary was 4 juan long, according to other sources, 10 juan.

During the Qing period 清きよし (1644-1911), Wang Niansun 王おう念ねん孫まご (1744-1832) wrote the commentary Guangya shuzheng 廣こう雅みやび疏證. Wang's scholarly approach was that characters with similar sounds should also have a similar meaning. His commentary influenced Hao Yi's 郝懿 commentary on the Erya and Qian Yi's 錢ぜに繹 (early 19th cent.) commentary on the Fangyan, and vice versa.

The oldest extant prints of the Guangya are full of errors which were amended by Wang Niansun and his son Wang Yinzhi 王おう引之 (1766-1834). There are three printings of the Wang commentary available: the Xuehaitang Studio 學がく海堂かいどう print, that included in the series Jifu congshu 畿輔叢書そうしょ, and a private printing of the family Wang. There is also a supplementary chapter (Buzheng 補正ほせい) written by Wang Yinzhi. It is included in the print of the Shanghai Guangcang Xuejiong Press 上海しゃんはい廣こう倉くら學がく窘 from 1918 and Luo Zhenyu's 羅ら振ふ玉たま (1866-1940) edition of the series Yinlizaisitang congshu 殷いん禮れい在ざい斯堂叢書そうしょ from 1929.

There is another Qing-period commentary, namely Qian Dazhao's 錢ぜに大昭たいしょう (1744-1813) Guangya yishu 廣こう雅義まさよし疏. Recent publications of this commentary, like the print of the Japanese Seikadō Studio 靜せい嘉よしみ堂どう also include a comment by Lu Wenchao 盧の文ぶん弨 (1717-1795).