Wéi Zhāo 韋昭 (197–278), zì Hóngsì 弘嗣, was a native of Yúnyáng 雲陽 in Wú Commandery (modern Dānyáng 丹陽 area, Jiāngsū) and one of the foremost philological scholars at the southern SūnWú 孫吳 court. He served successively as Erudite (bóshì 博士), Director of the Imperial Archive (mìshū chéng 秘書丞), Court Historian, and finally Vice Director of the Secretariat (zhōngshū púyè 中書僕射), heading the dynasty’s official historiographical establishment under Sūn Hào 孫皓. His refusal to flatter the increasingly arbitrary Sūn Hào — in particular his protests over imperial drinking ritual and his unwillingness to fabricate auspicious omens — led to his imprisonment and execution by the emperor in 278. His name is recorded as Wéi Yào 韋曜 in the Sānguó zhì, a tabooing of the personal name of the Jìn-dynasty progenitor Sīmǎ Zhāo 司馬昭 noted by Péi Sōngzhī. He compiled the official Wúshū 吳書 (now lost in independent transmission, surviving in citations) and produced the standard annotation of the Guóyǔ KR2e0001, drawing on and partly displacing the earlier glosses of Zhèng Zhòng 鄭眾, Jiǎ Kuí 賈逵, Yú Fān 虞翻, and Táng Gù 唐固. His Guóyǔ jiě 國語解 in 21 juǎn is the only continuous classical commentary on the work to survive, and every later edition rests on it.