顧炎武 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 顾炎武 gùyánwǔ ㄍㄨˋ ㄧㄢˊ ㄨˇ Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知录 Character by character 顧(gù)surname Gu 炎(yán)flame 武(wǔ)surname Wu A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0