The Peiwen Yunfu (佩文韻府 Pèiwén Yùnfǔ, literally rime storehouse of esteemed phrases) is a 1711 Chinese rime dictionary of literary allusions and poetic dictions. Collated by tone and rime, the dictionary serves the composition of poetry.

Like the Kangxi dictionary, the Peiwen Yunfu was compiled under the patronage of the Kangxi Emperor, whose imperial library was named Peiwen ("esteem/admire writing/phrases/literature"). He believed that previous Chinese dictionaries of multiple-character phrases, including the Yuan Dynasty Yunfu qunyu and the Ming Dynasty Wuche yunrui, were incomplete and sometimes erroneous. Over twenty editors, including Zhang Yushu (, 1642–1711) and Chen Tingjing (, 1638–1712), began the compilation in 1704 and finished in 1711. In 1716, the emperor ordered the creation of a supplement, the Yunfu shiyi, which was completed in 1720.

The Peiwen yunfu is a large dictionary (212 "volumes; fascicles") of two-, three-, and four-character idioms. It contains roughly 560,000 items under 10,257 entries arranged by 106 rhymes. Classical allusions and phrases are classified under the rhyme of their last character, with numerous quotations given to illustrate usage.

Although the Peiwen yunfu, which James Legge calls the "Kangxi Thesaurus", is less famous than the Kangxi dictionary, it can be helpful in tracing literary usages. "Whenever names or phrases are met with which are not understood," say Teng and Biggerstaff, "this is the first work which should be consulted."

康熙四十三年（1704年），諭令張玉書、陳廷敬、李光地等七十六人編纂的一本韻母詞典。成書於康熙五十年（1711年），「佩文」是康熙帝的書齋名，該書因此得名。康熙五十五年四月（1716年）又諭令王掞、王頊齡等人，就《佩文韻府》未收錄的詞藻或是未引用的文獻資料再加以補充。康熙五十九年（1720）編成《韻府拾遺》，以補《佩文韻府》的遺漏，卷數也是一〇六卷，附刻於《佩文韻府》之後。《拾遺》的編輯體例與《佩文韻府》相同，分為「補藻」和「補注」兩欄。乾隆年間修《四庫全書》時，因病其原書篇頁繁重，改為四百四十四卷，是《四庫全書》中收錄最多的著作。

《佩文韻府》是在元代陰時夫《韻府群玉》和明代凌稚隆《五車韻瑞》的基礎上增補而成，是中國依韻排列規模最大的詞典，全書收單字一萬九千多個，典故大約有五十多萬條，任何文章典故均輯錄於此書。每個韻部排列同韻部的字，在字下列出以此字收尾的詞。書中以單字統詞語，按《平水韻》一〇六韻排列；每字的字頭下，用反切注音，之後簡括地訓釋及標明出處。收詞又分「韻藻」、「增」、「對語」、「摘句」四類，凡是《韻府群玉》、《五車韻瑞》已收錄的就稱「韻藻」。

自頒布《佩文韻府》以來，該書成為科舉考試時詩文用韻的標準。但《佩文韻府》篇帙浩繁，價格不菲，窮學生根本無力購置，而且不易攜帶亦是其缺點，所以有簡版《詩韻集成》的出現。《佩文韻府》引文只列作者名字，多無書名、篇名，增加了查詢的難度。另外，《佩文韻府》所據資料多由其他類書輾轉鈔録而來，核書不精、錯訛雜出，因此錯誤甚多，大大降低其實用性。《佩文韻府》編纂的同時也編纂了《駢字類編》。

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