qīng

noble

Evolution

卿 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
卿 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
卿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
卿 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
卿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qīng

noble, high officer; 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)

Most common words with 卿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

国务卿

Secretary of State

honorific (old)

卿卿我我

to bill and coo (idiom)

颜真卿

Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty

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