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Ge Benyi (February 1933 – 16 January 2020) was a Chinese linguist known for her pioneering research in Chinese lexicology. She was a lifelong professor at Shandong University.

Biography
Ge Benyi was born in February 1933 in Qingdao, Shandong, Republic of China, with her ancestral home in Weifang. She entered Shandong University in September 1951, and upon graduation in July 1955, became a faculty member of the university at the age of 22. She spent her entire career at the university where she taught for more than 50 years.

Ge pioneered the study of Chinese lexicology. Her book Modern Chinese Lexicology (现代汉语词汇学) was reprinted eight times in the first ten years of its publication, and was translated into English and published by Routledge in 2018. She also wrote or edited Introduction to Linguistics (语言学概论), which was reprinted every year for 28 years; A Study on Chinese Vocabulary (汉语词汇研究), and A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Linguistics (实用中国语言学词典).

Ge died on 16 January 2020 in Jinan, aged 86. At the time of her death, there were eight doctoral advisors in Chinese lexicology at Chinese universities, and six of them were former students of hers.