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卿
qīng
1. high ranking official (old)
2. term of endearment between spouses (old)
3. (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old)
4. honorific (old)
Very Common • Top 4% ✏️ 10 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

卿
qīng
noble; minister; thou (poetic)
10 丶

Compound Words (13)

九卿
jiǔqīng
the Nine Ministers (in imperial China)
公卿
gōngqīng
high-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor
冏卿
jiǒngqīng
Minister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding
科卿
Kēqīng
Cochin (in south India)
国务卿
guówùqīng
Secretary of State
徐祯卿
XúZhēnqīng
Xu Zhenqing (1479-1511), Ming writer, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming [[江南四大才子]]
关汉卿
GuānHànqīng
Guan 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
YánZhēnqīng
Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
副国务卿
fùguówùqīng
Under-Secretary of State
卿卿我我
qīngqīngwǒwǒ
to bill and coo (idiom)
国务次卿
guówùcìqīng
Under Secretary of State
太仆寺卿
Tàipúsìqīng
Minister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding
王侯公卿
wánghóugōngqīng
aristocracy

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Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
2,028
Word Frequency Rank
2,961 of 84,292

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