Tangyun

Tangyun excerpt in the Chinese Dictionary Museum, Jincheng, Shanxi

The Tangyun (simplified Chinese: 唐から韵; traditional Chinese: 唐から韻いん; pinyin: Tángyùn; lit. 'Tang rhymes') is a Chinese rime dictionary, published in 732 CE during the Tang dynasty, by Sun Mian (孫まご愐), which is a revised version of Qieyun, a guide for Chinese pronunciation by using the fanqie method. The original has lost. According to Shigutang Shuhua Huikao (式しき古堂ふるどう書畫しょが匯考) by Bian Yongyu (卞永譽ほまれ), Tangyun has 5 volumes, 195 rimes totally. The statistics is the same as from Kanmiu Buque Qieyun (刊かん謬補缺ほけつ切きり韻いん) by Wang Renxu (王仁わに昫), which has respectively one more rimes in Shangshen (上聲じょうせい) and Qusheng (去聲きょしょう) than Qieyun.

The Buddhist Uyghur Kingdom of Qocho used the Qianziwen (the Thousand Character Classic), Qieyun and it was written that "In Qocho city were more than fifty monasteries, all titles of which are granted by the emperors of the Tang dynasty, which keep many Buddhist texts such as the Tripitaka, Tangyun, Yupian, and Jingyin 經けい音おん."