卿
Meanings
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- 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)
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Wiktionary
- 1.high official; minister
- 2.honorific term of address
- 3.term of address used by emperors toward ministers
- 4.term of endearment used between spouses
- 5.synonym of 慶 /庆 (qìng, “auspicious”) used in 卿雲／卿云 (qīngyún, “auspicious clouds”)
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰraŋ): semantic 𠨍 (“two men facing each other”) + phonetic 皀 (OC *pqrɯɡ, *pqrɯb, *krɯb, *qʰaŋ, “food vessel with a stand”) – people engaged in ritual feasting (Yang, 1965). The character was once indistinguishable from 鄉 (OC *qʰaŋ); see the Glyph origin section there for more.
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Stroke order
Components
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Related words
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