卿
Ancient forms
3 forms- Oracle boneShang
- BronzeWestern Zhou
- Small sealQin–Han
- 卿RegularToday
Glyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
qīng qing1
- high ranking official (old)
- term of endearment between spouses (old)
- (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old)
- honorific (old)
Words with 卿
- 公卿gōngqīnghigh-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor
- 九卿jiǔqīngthe nine top officials (in imperial China)
- 冏卿jiǒngqīngminister of the imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding
- 国务卿guówùqīngSecretary of State
- 国务次卿guówùcìqīngUnder Secretary of State
- 卿卿我我qīngqīngwǒwǒto bill and coo (idiom)
- 副国务卿fùguówùqīngundersecretary of state
- 王侯公卿wánghóugōngqīngaristocracy
- 科卿KēqīngCochin (in south India)
- 关汉卿GuānHànqīngGuan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家
- 颜真卿YánZhēnqīngYan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
- 徐祯卿XúZhēnqīngXu Zhenqing (1479-1511), Ming writer, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子