Taxonomy of meanings for 卿:
- 卿 qīng (OC: khraŋ MC: kʰɯiaŋ) 去京切 平 廣韻：【説文章也公卿春秋漢含孳曰三公象五岳九卿法河海三公法三台九卿法北斗釋名曰漢置十二卿正卿九太常光禄衞尉太僕廷尉鴻臚宗正司農少府又姓風俗通云趙相虞卿之後去京切一 】
Additional information about 卿
說文解字:
- Criteria
- YOU
1. The current general second person pronouns are rǔ 汝 in informal contexts, and in polite contexts zǐ 子.
2. The current informal pronoun is rǔ 汝, and this word is commonly used in imperatives.
<div>3. Ěr 爾 is another informal second person pronoun, and the word is not generally used in imperatives.</div><div><br></div><div>4. Ruò 若 is a poetic/archaising second person pronoun that went out of current use in Tang (待考）times. </div><div><br></div><div>5. Jūn 君 addresses superiors as well as equals formally, and politely.</div><div><br></div><div>6. Qīng 卿 is probably stylistically colloquial and addresses inferiors informally.</div><div><br></div><div>7. Dà wáng 大王 is the polite formal address to any king, small or powerful. </div><div><br></div><div>8. Wú zǐ 吾子, extremely common in the Zuozhuan, is respectful and honorific, but in a communicativ and sometimes even intimate mode: ·鄭玄注："吾子，相貌之辞。<br></div><br>
- OFFICIAL
1. Officials are referred to as shì 士 and daì fū 大夫. The word shì 士 can also include daì fū 大夫, therefore the term is often used for a whole body of officials.
2. Dà fū 大夫 "notables" is a general formal term for high officials.
3. Lì 吏 refers to officials in charge of concrete practical matters, often policing and the like.
4. Gōng 工 can be used as a general term for clerks.
5. Yǒu sī 有司 can refer to a person in charge of an office.
6. Guān 官 refers quite generally to the persons in charge of an office.
7. Shì zhě 仕者 refers to any person in public employment of any kind.
8. Lǎo 老 originally politely referred to higher officials (>gōng 公, >qīng 卿, >dài fū 大夫 ), therefore it came to be used as a general term referring to high officials.
9. Yuán 員 originally refers to officials as counted units, and the word came to be used as a general term for officials.
- MINISTER
1. The general word for a government minister at any level and of any kind is chén 臣, generically rén chén 人臣.
2. Zuǒ yòu 左右 refers to the senior ministers in the immediate environment of a king or duke who were able, ex officio, to speak up in court.
3. Xiàng 相 refers to the head of the group of ministers, the prime minister, also called yǐn 尹 or lìng yǐn 令尹 in the southern state of Chǔ.
4. Qīng 卿 refers to a member of the group fo senior ministers, variously defined.
The list of senior official titles in ancient China is long indeed. See Hucker and Zuo Yandong's monograph.