卿

See also: 喞, and 唧

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 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: 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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīng (qing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hing¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kheng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cing
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing¹
    • Yale: chīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ching
    • Palladius: цин (cin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hing¹
    • Yale: hīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (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: khjaeng

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
Baxter	khjaeng
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

(deprecated template usage) 卿

1. noble, high officer

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Japanese

Kanji

卿

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

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

Noun

卿(きょう) • (kyō) 

1. (honorific title) Sir, Lord

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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