[2] The original work is believed to have consisted of three volumes covering the customs, government and language of Korea, with various historical documents as appendices.

All that survives is excerpts quoted in two Chinese encyclopedias, the Shuō fú (說郛) from the Ming dynasty and the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (1726).

[3] The surviving fragment of the Jilin leishi consists of a brief introduction dealing with Korean customs and government, and a glossary of over 350 Korean words and phrases, grouped in 18 semantic categories.

[7] The Chinese coda -k sometimes corresponds to Late Middle Korean -k, and sometimes to no final consonant.

[8] However, the Chinese coda -p consistently represented Korean -p.[9] Cited works