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Usage of the character 卿

qīng
[卿]
  • 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)
Kēqīng
科卿
[科卿]
  • Cochin (in south India)
gōngqīng
公卿
[公卿]
  • high-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor
jiǒngqīng
冏卿
[冏卿]
  • minister of the imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding
jiǔqīng
九卿
[九卿]
  • the Nine Ministers (in imperial China)
Yán Zhēnqīng
颜真卿
[顏真卿]
  • Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
guówùqīng
国务卿
[國務卿]
  • Secretary of State
Xú Zhēnqīng
徐祯卿
[徐禎卿]
  • Xu Zhenqing (1479-1511), Ming writer, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子
Guān Hànqīng
关汉卿
[關漢卿]
  • 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
Dàlǐsìqīng
大理寺卿
[大理寺卿]
  • Chief Justice of the Imperial Court of Judicial Review
fùguówùqīng
副国务卿
[副國務卿]
  • undersecretary of state
qīngqīngwǒwǒ
卿卿我我
[卿卿我我]
  • to bill and coo (idiom)
  • to whisper sweet nothings to one another
  • to be very much in love
Tàipúsìqīng
太仆寺卿
[太僕寺卿]
  • Minister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding
guówùcìqīng
国务次卿
[國務次卿]
  • Under Secretary of State
wánghóugōngqīng
王侯公卿
[王侯公卿]
  • aristocracy
jīguānsuànjìntàicōngming,fǎnsuànleqīngqīngxìngmìng
机关算尽太聪明,反算了卿卿性命
[機關算盡太聰明,反算了卿卿性命]
  • if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 紅樓夢/红楼梦 ( Hónglóu Mèng))