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)

to bill and coo (idiom); to whisper sweet nothings to one another; to be very much in love

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