Entry № 8383 · Chinese origin

Qingzhao Qingzhao — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHING-jow /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Greatest female Chinese poet (Li Qingzhao)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Chinese)

A name that means "greatest female chinese poet (li qingzhao)".

Qingzhao (清照) — "clear illumination." Li Qingzhao (1084-c. 1155) is widely regarded as the greatest female poet in Chinese history — Song Dynasty master of ci (lyric poetry). Her later poems are masterpieces of widowed grief: "Searching, searching, lonely, lonely, sorrow, sorrow, pain, pain."

Greatest female Chinese poet (Li Qingzhao) — a Chinese name.

The name in its native script.

清照
Transliteration
Qīngzhào
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃɪŋ.dʒaʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Qingzhao stands.

Qingzhao does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Qingzhaos before her.

Real people
Li Qingzhao
Song Dynasty poet.
1084 – c. 1155
In fiction
Qingzhao
Featured in countless Chinese literary anthologies.

Names connected to Qingzhao.

The number behind Qingzhao.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Qingzhao reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.