qīng
卿 (qīng) is a Chinese word meaning “high ranking official (old); term of endearment between spouses (old); (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old)”.
Meanings
- 1high ranking official (old)
- 2term of endearment between spouses (old)
- 3(from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old)
- 4honorific (old)
Related words
国务卿Secretary of State卿卿我我to bill and coo (idiom)九卿the nine top officials (in imperial China)公卿high-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor冏卿minister of the imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding副国务卿undersecretary of state国务次卿Under Secretary of State机关算尽太聪明，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[Hong2 lou2 Meng4])王侯公卿aristocracy关汉卿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 元曲四大家大理寺卿Chief Justice of the Imperial Court of Judicial Review太仆寺卿Minister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding