Wáng Yǔzhī 王與之 (Southern Sòng, fl. Chúnyòu era 1241–1252; CBDB id 38244 has no birth/death years). Zì Cìdiǎn 次㸃 (also written 次點). Native of Yuèqīng 樂清 in Wēnzhōu 溫州 (modern Yuèqīng, Zhèjiāng), thus the sobriquet Dōngjiā xiānshēng 東嘉先生. A bùyī (commoner) scholar — never a jìnshì — who pursued classical learning at home until the Imperial Library, in Chúnyòu 2 (1242), by special edict requested his manuscript KR1d0010 Zhōulǐ dìngyì 周禮訂義. The Wēnzhōu prefect Zhào Rǔténg 趙汝騰 transmitted the manuscript to court with a memorial of recommendation; the emperor was pleased and appointed Wáng to the rank of Bīnzhōu wénxué 賓州文學, eventually rising to Tōngpàn Sìzhōu 通判泗州.
His KR1d0010 Zhōulǐ dìngyì in 80 juan is the principal Sòng anthology-commentary on the Zhōulǐ, drawing on 51 earlier commentators (six HànTáng and 45 Sòng). The work was selected and arranged following Lǚ Zǔqiān’s 呂祖謙 Dú Shī jì 讀詩記 anthology method. The intellectual framework belongs to the ChéngZhāng Dàoxué line — Zhēn Déxiù 真德秀, in his preface, says of Wáng that “his learning is rooted in [Chéng] and [Zhāng]” — and the work’s organising principle is the prioritisation of philosophical meaning (yìlǐ 義理) over institutional detail (diǎnzhì 典制), with later Sòng material accordingly outweighing the HànTáng material.
Qiū Kuí 邱葵 in his Zhōulǐ bǔwáng xù 周禮補亡序 records that “in the Jiāxī era [1237–1240] Wáng Cìdiǎn of Dōngjiā composed a Zhōuguān bǔyí 周官補遺, by which the six ministries of the Zhōulǐ were at last made into a complete book.” The received KR1d0010 does not contain a bǔyí — it is unclear whether this was a separate book or once appended.
CBDB id 38244, dynasty 15 (Sòng). No birth/death dates registered.