Xiao Erya
The Xiao Erya was an early Chinese dictionary that supplements the Erya. It was supposedly compiled in the early Han dynasty by Kong Fu, a descendant of Confucius. However, the received Xiao Erya text was included in a Confucianist collection of debates, the Kongcongzi, which contains fabrications that its first editor Wang Su added to win his arguments with Zheng Xuan. The Qing dynasty scholar Hu Chenggong, who wrote the Xiao Erya yizheng, accepted Kong Fu as the author. Liu concludes the Xiao Erya reliably dates from the Western Han dynasty and suggests its compiler was from the southern state of Chu.
The Xiao Erya has 374 entries, far less than the Erya with 2091. It simplifies the Erya's 19 semantically-based chapter divisions into 13, and entitles them with guang instead of shi.
In comparison with the Erya chapter arrangement, Xiao Erya sections 1–3 are identical. Despite the different title with yi instead of qin, both Section 4 and Chapter 4 define kinship terms. Sections 6 and 7 divide Chapter 6. Xiao Erya Section 8 combines Chapters 13 and 14 ; 9 mirrors 17; and Section 10 combines 18 and 19. Xiao Erya sections 5 and 11–13 are not included in the Erya.