A Discussion on the Vocabulary Items of the Five Pronunciation and Meaning Dictionaries as Buddhist Scripts In this paper, “the five major pronunciation and meaning (Yinyi) dictionaries” referred to the Xuanying Yinyi (or so-called Zhongjing Yinyi), Huilin Yinyi, Xilin Yinyi, Kehong Yinyi, andHuayan Yinyi (or Huiyuan Yinyi) that explain Buddhist technical terminology. The unified book of these five dictionaries put together all the words that appear in each dictionary. This paper makes a preliminary exploration of the vocabularies in these five dictionaries, revealing the number of these vocabularies and their frequencies of occurrence, and analyzes their characteristics. Also, The features of the Chinese characters used in the vocabularies are investigated.