卿
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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)
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 卩 +8
- Structure
- Enclosure 包围
- Traditional
- 卿
- Common rank
- #2,710
- Unicode
- U+537F
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Formation & memory
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How 卿 is formed
How to remember it
minister · Heisig RSH #2511
letter opener + silver
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 卿
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Dr… | |
| 国务次卿 | Under Secretary of State | |
| 国务卿 | Secretary of State | |
| 副国务卿 | undersecretary of state | |
| 大理寺卿 | Chief Justice of the Imperial Court of Judicial Review | |
| 关汉卿 | Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical c… | |
| 王侯公卿 | aristocracy | |
| 公卿 | high-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor | |
| 科卿 | Cochin (in south India) | |
| 颜真卿 | Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty | |
| 太仆寺卿 | Minister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding | |
| 九卿 | the nine top officials (in imperial China) | |
| 卿卿我我 | to bill and coo (idiom); to whisper sweet nothings to one another; to be very much in love | |
| 徐祯卿 | Xu Zhenqing (1479-1511), Ming writer, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才… | |
| 冏卿 | minister of the imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding |