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卿

卿

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

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

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
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

Japanese

Kanji

卿

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Noun

卿 ‎(hiragana きょう, romaji kyō)

  1. (honorific title) Sir, Lord

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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