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

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

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／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, 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
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kheng

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/

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

(historical) high official; minister
(historical) honorific term of address
(historical) term of address used by emperors toward ministers
(archaic) term of endearment used between spouses
Template:zh-synonym Used in 卿雲／卿云 (qīngyún, “auspicious clouds”).

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

卿

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

Go-on: きょう (kyō)
Kan-on: けい (kei)
Kun: きみ (kimi, 卿)
Nanori: あき (aki)、あきら (akira)

Noun

卿(きょう) • (kyō)

(honorific title) Sir, Lord
水(み)戸(と)侯(こう)、徳(とく)川(がわ)頼(より)房(ふさ)卿(きょう)
Mito Kō, Tokugawa Yorifusa Kyō
Lord Tokugawa Yorifusa, Marquis of Mito

ウインストン・チャーチル卿(きょう)
uinsuton chāchiru kyō
Sir Winston Churchill

Korean

Etymology

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

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

卿

Wikisource

卿 (eumhun 벼슬 경 (byeoseul gyeong))

hanja form^? of 경 (“noble”)

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]