Complex sentence: A Chinese dictionary, the c.3rd century BCE "Erya", was the earliest surviving monolingual dictionary; although some sources cite the c.800 BCE Shizhoupian as a "dictionary", modern scholarship considers it a calligraphic compendium of Chinese characters from Zhou dynasty bronzes.
Split into simpler sentences: A Chinese dictionary, the c.3rd century BCE "Erya", was the earliest surviving monolingual dictionary; although some sources cite the c.800 BCE Shizhoupian as a "dictionary". Modern scholarship considers it a calligraphic compendium of Chinese characters from Zhou dynasty bronzes.