the 1615 Zihui by Mei Yingzuo, and the 1627 Zhengzitong by Zhang Zilie.

The imperial edict required that the project be completed within a five-year span. As such, errors were inevitable. Although the emperor's preface said "each and every definition is given in detail and every single pronunciation is provided". The scholar-official Wang Xihou (1713-1777) criticized the Kangxi Zidian in the preface of his own dictionary. When the