high ranking official (old); term of endearment between spouses (old); (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old); honorific (old)

the nine top officials (in imperial China)

high-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor

minister of the imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding

Cochin (in south India)

Guan Hanqing (c. 1235-c. 1300), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the 雜劇|杂剧 tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists 元曲四大家

Xu Zhenqing (1479-1511), Ming writer, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子

Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty

undersecretary of state

Under Secretary of State

Chief Justice of the Imperial Court of Judicial Review

Minister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding

aristocracy