卿

See also: 喞, 唧, and 鄉

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]

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 (first edition): 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
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰraŋ): semantic 卯 (“two men facing each other”) + phonetic 皀 (OC *pqrɯɡ, *pqrɯb, *krɯb, *qʰaŋ, “food vessel with a stand”) – people engaged in ritual feasting (Yang, 1965). The character was once indistinguishable from 鄉 (OC *qʰaŋ); see the Glyph origin section there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīng (qing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: qīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ching
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cing
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hing¹
    • Yale: hīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hing¹
    • Sinological 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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hing1

• 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

1. noble, high officer

Compounds

• 三卿
• 上卿 (shàngqīng)
• 九卿 (Jiǔqīng)
• 亞卿／亚卿
• 先卿
• 公卿 (gōngqīng)
• 公卿之門／公卿之门
• 公卿大臣
• 六卿
• 卿公
• 卿卿
• 卿卿我我 (qīngqīngwǒwǒ)

• 卿士
• 卿大夫 (qīngdàfū)
• 卿子
• 卿家
• 卿雲／卿云 (qīngyún)
• 名公鉅卿／名公巨卿
• 名動公卿／名动公卿
• 國務卿／国务卿 (guówùqīng)
• 孫卿／孙卿
• 客卿
• 寺卿

• 布衣卿相
• 干卿何事
• 干卿底事
• 愛卿／爱卿 (àiqīng)
• 焦仲卿妻
• 白衣公卿
• 白衣卿相
• 芳卿
• 荀卿 (Xúnqīng)
• 貳卿／贰卿
• 鉅卿偉公／巨卿伟公

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Japanese

Kanji

卿

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On (unclassified): きょう (kyō); けい (kei)
• Kun: きみ (kimi, 卿)
• Nanori: あき (aki); あきら (akira)

Noun

卿(きょう) • (kyō) 

1. (honorific title) Sir, Lord

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 卿 (MC kʰˠiæŋ). Recorded as Middle Korean 겨ᇰ (Yale: kyeng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

卿 (eumhun 벼슬 경 (byeoseul gyeong))

1. Hanja form^? of 경 (“noble”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 경상 (卿相, gyeongsang)
• 공경 (公卿, gonggyeong)
• 추기경 (樞機卿, chugigyeong)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

卿: Hán Việt readings: khanh
卿: Nôm readings: khành

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