Kǒng Cháo 孔晁, scholar of the Western Jìn 西晉 (late 3rd c. CE), known almost exclusively as the early annotator of the Zhōushū 周書 (i.e. the Yì Zhōushū 逸周書 / Jízhǒng Zhōushū 汲冢周書, KR2d0001). Both the Suíshū jīngjí zhì 隋書經籍志 and the Táng yìwén zhì 唐藝文志 list his commentary on the seventy-chapter Zhōushū in ten juǎn (some witnesses give eight). Cháo’s annotation is the earliest substantial reading of the work to survive, and remains the foundation of all later editions and scholarship; he is otherwise an obscure figure whose biographical particulars are not preserved. His name is sometimes written 孔眺 in Sòng-printed editions of the prefatory matter (e.g. the Sòng prefaces by Cháo Gōngwǔ 晁公武 and Dīng Fǔ 丁黼 included with the Sìbù cóngkān witness of KR2d0001) — a graphical variant for the same name, not a different person. Not in CBDB.