卿

卿 U+537F, 卿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-537F ← 卾 [U+537E] CJK Unified Ideographs 厀 → [U+5380]

卿 U+2F831, 卿 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F831 ← 卽 [U+2F830] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 卿 → [U+2F832]

卿 U+2F832, 卿 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F832 ← 卿 [U+2F831] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 卿 → [U+2F833]

卿 U+2F833, 卿 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F833 ← 卿 [U+2F832] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𠨬 → [U+2F834]

See also: 喞 and 唧

Translingual

Han character

卿 (radical 26 卩+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹日戈中 (HHAIL), four-corner 7772₀, composition ⿰𠂎即)

1. noble, high officer

References

• KangXi: page 160, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2877
• Dae Jaweon: page 366, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 318, character 3
• Unihan data for U+537F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		卿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卿
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (鄉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
曏	*qʰjaŋʔ, *qʰjaŋs, *qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
鄉	*qʰaŋ
薌	*qʰaŋ
膷	*qʰaŋ
響	*qʰaŋʔ
饗	*qʰaŋʔ
蠁	*qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
嚮	*qʰaŋʔ, *qʰaŋs
卿	*kʰraŋ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīng (qing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hing¹
• Min Nan (POJ): kheng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ing¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ching
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hing¹
    • Yale: hīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hing¹
    • IPA ^(key): /hɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kheng
    • Tâi-lô: khing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiɪŋ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰˠiæŋ/▼

Rime
Character	卿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	去京切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚiaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰiajŋ/
Li Rong	/kʰiɐŋ/
Wang Li	/kʰĭɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯ɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qīng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*C.qʰraŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰraŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qīng
Middle Chinese	‹ khjæng ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʰraŋ/
English	minister (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卿
Reading #	1/1
No.	13607
Phonetic component	鄉
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	卿
Old Chinese	/*kʰraŋ/
Notes	鄉轉註分化字

Definitions

卿

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Compounds

• 卿卿我我 (qīngqīngwǒwǒ)

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Japanese

Kanji

卿

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō), けい (kei)
• Kun: きみ (kimi)

Noun

卿 (hiragana きょう, rōmaji kyō)

1. (honorific title) Sir, Lord

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Korean

Hanja

卿 • (gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: khanh
• Nôm: khành

1. Hán tự form of khanh, “you” (used by royalty to refer to inferior)