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Ganlu Zishu (干祿字書 "Character Book for Seeking an Official Emolument") is a Chinese orthography dictionary of the Tang Dynasty. The first surviving orthographical dictionary for the regular script, it was authored by Yan Yuansun (顏元孫), a descendant of the famous scholar Yan Shigu (顏師古). It is roughly based on Yan Shigu's work Ziyang (字樣 "Character Samples"), now surviving only in fragments. It was meant to be an official guide for the use of those who took the Imperial Examination, thus the title "Ganlu", an allusion to the Analects (2:18).