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The '''''Xiao Erya''''' ({{zh-cpw|c=小爾雅/小尔雅|p=''Xiǎo Ěryǎ''|w=''Hsiao Erh-ya''}}; "Little [Er]ya") was an early [[Chinese dictionary]] that supplements the ''[[Erya]]''. It was supposedly compiled in the early [[Han Dynasty]] by Kong Fu (孔鮒 264?-208 BCE), a descendent of [[Confucius]]. However, the received ''Xiao Erya'' text was included in a [[Confucianist]] collection of debates, the ''Kongcongzi'' (孔叢子; ''K'ung-ts'ung-tzu''; "The Kong Family Master's Anthology"), which contains fabrications that its first editor [[Wang Su]] (王肅, 195-256 CE) added to win his arguments with [[Zheng Xuan]] (鄭玄, 127-200CE). The [[Qing Dynasty]] scholar Hu Chenggong (胡承珙, 1776-1832), who wrote the ''Xiao Erya yizheng'' (小爾雅義證 "Exegesis and Proof for the ''Xiao Erya''"), accepted Kong Fu as the author. Liu (2005) concludes the ''Xiao Erya'' reliably dates from the Western Han Dynasty and suggests its compiler was from the southern state of [[Chu (state)| Chu]].