Qinding means approved personally by the emperor in ancient usage.
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usage
钦 rarely appears alone; it occurs in formal compounds: 钦佩 (to admire), 钦仰 (to admire and look up to), 钦定 (imperially designated). In imperial China, 钦 attached to a word (e.g. 钦差大臣 — imperial envoy) signified that something was directly from the emperor.
Metal radical on the left, the indexing component and a contracted form of 金. The link to 钦 is etymologically loose — 钦 originally meant 'to yawn or pause' before drifting to 'admire'. Read the 钅 here as a graph-marker rather than a meaning clue.
Right side 欠 qiàn supplies the sound with a regular shift qiàn → qīn (-iàn to -īn nasal alternation). 欠 also lends meaning — it pictures a person with mouth open, and the imperial sense (as in 钦命 'by imperial command') grew from 'gazing up in awe'.
