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

关汉卿

Guān Hàn qīng

1 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

Idioms (1)

卿卿我我

qīng qīng wǒ wǒ

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

Sample Sentences

是啊，我一开始就是临摹颜真卿的《颜勤礼碑》，我很喜欢他楷书的风格，结构方正，笔力雄强，气势庄严。

shì a ，wǒ yīkāishǐ jiùshì línmó Yán Zhēnqīng de 《yánqínlǐbēi 》，wǒ hěn xǐhuan tā kǎishū de fēnggé ，jiégòu fāngzhèng ，bǐ lì xióngqiáng ，qìshì zhuāngyán 。

Yeah, when I was starting out I copied the style of Yan Zhenqing's 'Yan Qinli stele'. I really like his regular script style, with the square shaped structure and the forceful brush strokes, with such an imposing manner.

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1.看到这对卿卿我我的小情侣，她不由得想起自己的前男友。

.kàndào zhè duì qīngqīngwǒwǒ de xiǎo qínglǚ ，tā bùyóude xiǎngqǐ zìjǐ de qiánnányǒu 。

Seeing this loving couple, she could not help but think of her ex-boyfriend.

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70年前，中华人民共和国成立前夕，美国国务卿艾奇逊在关于送呈《美国与中国的关系》白皮书致总统杜鲁门的信中说：“近代史上每一个中国政府必须面临的第一个问题，是解决人民的吃饭问题，到现在为止，没有一个政府是成功的。”

nián qián ，ZhōnghuáRénmínGònghéguó chénglì qiánxī ，Měiguó guówùqīng Àiqíxùn zài guānyú sòngchéng 《Měiguó yǔ Zhōngguó de guānxi 》báipíshū zhì zǒngtǒng dùlǔmén de xìn zhōng shuō ：“jìndàishǐ shàng měi yīgē Zhōngguó zhèngfǔ bìxū miànlín de dìyī ge wèntí ，shì jiějué rénmín de chīfàn wèntí ，dào xiànzài wéizhǐ ，méiyǒu yīgē zhèngfǔ shì chénggōng de 。”

70 years ago, on the eve of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, US Secretary of State Acheson said in a letter to President Truman on the White Paper on the relationship between the United States and China: "The first problem that every Chinese government must face in modern history is solving the people’s food problems, no government has been successful so far.”

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