Hui Lin 慧琳 (737820 CE) was a Chinese translator and Sanskrit scholar.

Born in Kashgar, he was author of the Yíqièjīngyīnyì《一切經音義》, written between 783 and 807 CE,Sun, Jian Wei. 孫建偉. 2016.〈《慧琳音義》的作者、成書、流傳及版本綜論〉,《重慶師範大學學報(哲學社會科學版)》2016.4:34-40。 the earliest Chinese lexicographical work to distinguish the labiodentals from the bilabial initials.

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