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Evolution

旂 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
旂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
旂 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

flag

() 

variant of [qí]

Most common words with 旂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

banner

旗帜

ensign

国旗

flag (of a country)

红旗

Red flag city district

旗子

flag

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.[ɢ]ər

gj+j

banner; flag


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.2263% of movies

1886th most common character in movies

1407th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+65C2

Shuowen

“旂,旗有眾鈴以令眾也。从,斤聲。”


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