Shiming

The Shiming (simplified Chinese: 释名; traditional Chinese: 釋名; pinyin: Shìmíng; Wade–Giles: Shih Ming; literally "Explaining Names / Explanation of Names"), also known as the Yìyǎ (逸雅; I-ya; "Lost Erya"), is a Chinese dictionary that employed phonological glosses, and "is believed to date from c. 200 " (Miller 1980: 424).