GGood Chinese Name

Chinese surname · rank 425

卿

卿 is read as qīng.

Pinyin

qīng

Script forms

Simplified and traditional 卿

Basic meaning

noble, high officer

Five element

Earth

Origin

Time: Western Zhou tradition, 1046-771 BCE

Place: Western Zhou Fan fief / Zhongshanfu tradition; Warring States Zhao and Yu Qing tradition; later Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi distribution context and Bohai commandery note

Origin note

Qing/卿 is treated as an official-title or ancestor-title surname, not simply the word for a noble official. One source-backed layer links it to Zhongshanfu, a Zhou qingshi, whose descendants used the title Qing. Another layer derives it from Yu Qing, the Warring States Zhao minister whose title became a surname among descendants. A third layer records Qingzi Guanjun Song Yi and a Zi-surname branch. The page keeps these layers parallel and avoids a single-founder claim.

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