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卿

qīng

Character

What 卿 means

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)

Words starting with 卿

• 卿卿我我qīng qīng wǒ wǒto bill and coo (idiom); to whisper sweet nothings to one another; to be very much in love

Words containing 卿

• 国务卿guó wù qīngSecretary of State
• 公卿gōng qīnghigh-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor
• 科卿Kē qīngCochin (in south India)
• 关汉卿Guān Hàn qīngGuan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 杂剧 tradition of musical…
• 颜真卿Yán Zhēn qīngYan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty
• 副国务卿fù guó wù qīngundersecretary of state
• 国务次卿guó wù cì qīngUnder Secretary of State
• 大理寺卿Dà lǐ sì qīngChief Justice of the Imperial Court of Judicial Review
• 太仆寺卿Tài pú sì qīngMinister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding
• 王侯公卿wáng hóu gōng qīngaristocracy
• 徐祯卿Xú Zhēn qīngXu Zhenqing (1479-1511), Ming writer, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming…
• 冏卿jiǒng qīngminister of the imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding
• 九卿jiǔ qīngthe nine top officials (in imperial China)
• 机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命jī guān suàn jìn tài cōng ming , fǎn suàn le qīng qīng xìng mìngif one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing…

Characters that look like 卿

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 挪nuóto shift; to move
• 绑bǎngto tie; bind or fasten together; to kidnap
• 卸xièto unload; to remove; to detach; to get rid of
• 衔xiánbit (of a bridle); to hold in the mouth; to harbor (feelings)
• 绗hángto quilt
• 婀ēgraceful; willowy; unstable

Sounds the same

Read qīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 清(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted
• 轻light; easy; gentle
• 青green; blue; black
• 倾to overturn; to collapse; to lean
• 氢hydrogen (chemistry)
• 鲭mackerel
• 圊restroom; latrine
• 顷variant of 倾
• 蜻see 蜻蜓
• 淸variant of 清
• 靑variant of 青