What 卿 means
It represents 卿, a title for a senior official.
In classical Chinese texts, 卿 also serves as a respectful way to address someone, including when a ruler addresses a minister or spouses address each other.
Why is there a separate Unicode character?
It preserves a legacy conversion distinction.
Unicode keeps it for round-trip conversion with CNS 11643-1992. Unicode normalization maps 卿 to 卿, so text processing can erase the separate code point.
Technical and archival: it preserves an encoding distinction.
Normalization can turn 卿 into 卿, so the separate code point may not survive text processing.
Who writes 卿
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Questions people ask
1Why does 卿 show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find 卿
- Search it as
- 卿 variant · 卿 compatibility · 2f831 · cns 11643 · 卿 variation selector
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
卿\2F831Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.