Hóng Kuò 洪适 (1117–1184), originally named Hóng Zào 洪造, zì Jǐngbó 景伯, hào Pánzhōu 盤洲, posthumous name Wénhuì 文惠, was a Southern Sòng senior councillor and the most accomplished epigrapher of his generation. The eldest son of the diplomat Hóng Hào 洪皓 (1088–1155, captured by the Jīn during the 1129 mission and detained for 15 years), he and his younger brothers Hóng Zūn 洪遵 and Hóng Mài 洪邁 (the famous Yíjiān zhì 夷堅志 author) were jointly known as the Sān Hóng 三洪 — three Hóng brothers all rising to high office. Hóng Kuò passed the bóxué hóngcí 博學宏詞 examination in Shàoxīng rénxū (1142) and rose to shàngshū zuǒpúshè tóng zhōngshūménxià píngzhāng shì 尚書左僕射同中書門下平章事 (chief councillor) before retiring. Sòngshǐ j. 373 has his biography. His epigraphic project, executed during his ShàoxīngQiándào prefecture of Yuèzhōu 越州 (Shàoxīng), was a five-part Hàn lì 漢隸 (Hàn-clerical script) compendium — Lìshì 隸釋 KR2n0017, Lìzuǎn 隸纘, Lìyùn 隸韻, Lìtú 隸圖, Lìxù 隸續 KR2n0018 — of which the Lìyùn was never completed; the others survive substantially intact. CBDB 870 confirms 1117–1184.