Abstract

The rime dictionary “Qieyun (_??_) ”, compiled in 601 by Lu Fayan (_??_), was very often revised and enlarged during the Tang (_??_) and Song (_??_) dynasties. Only two of those editions, however, are still extant with a whole skin: “Kanmiu-buque-qieyun (_??_) ” by Wang Renxu (_??_) and “Dasong-chongxiu-guangyun (_??_) ”by Chen Pengnian (_??_). But in addition to them, fortunately, dozens of fragmentary manuscripts and block-prints mainly from Dunhuang (_??_) are well preserved in the libraries in London, Paris and other cities. So, there have been several attempts to identify and classify those fragments. And “Setsuin-zankan-shehon-hosei (_??_) ” by Tadashi Ueda (_??_) is one of the most valuable studies in the field.
The aim of this paper is to sort the fragments according to the usages of the elliptical mark “_??_” and to collate it with the classification T. Ueda has made.