Wáng Yì 王逸 (fl. 89–158 CE), zì Shūshī 叔師, of Yíchéng 宜城 in Nánjùn 南郡 (modern Yíchéng, Húběi). Eastern Hàn philologist and editor. According to Hòu Hàn shū 80A (Wén yuàn liè zhuàn 文苑列傳), he passed the jìlǐ 計吏 selection in the early Yuánchū 元初 era of Emperor Ān 安 (114 CE +), held appointment as xiào shū láng 校書郎, then shì zhōng 侍中 under Emperor Shùn 順 (r. 125–144).
His enduring contribution is the Chǔ cí zhāng jù 楚辭章句 (KR4a0002), the earliest surviving complete commentary on the Chǔ cí and the textual platform on which all later commentaries (Hóng Xīngzǔ KR4a0003, Zhū Xī KR4a0004, Jiǎng Jì KR4a0007) build. He also fixed the seventeen-section structure of the received anthology and added his own Jiǔ sī 九思 as the closing section. His readings — particularly the loyalist-allegorical interpretation of Qū Yuán — became the orthodox frame for two millennia, and the recent reappraisal of the zhāng jù (Du 2019) treats it as the primary site where the figure of Qū Yuán was constructed.
CBDB id 35619 lists him without firm lifedates; the fl. 89–158 window in the catalog meta is the standard biographical estimate from the Hòu Hàn shū career notice.