旗 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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qí

banner

Components

方 Meaning component

fāng

square

其 Sound component

qí

its, his, (3p possessive)

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

旗

qí

banner, flag, streamer; banner; flag; (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗[Bāqí]); administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县[xiàn] county; CL:面[miàn]

旗 (旂)

qí

variant of 旗[qí]

Most common words with 旗

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	旗	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
*[g](r)ə	gi	qí	flag

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 9.2263% of movies

1886th most common character in movies

1407th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	14
Unicode	U+65D7
Shuowen	“旗，熊旗五游，以象罰星，士卒以為期。从，其聲。《周禮》曰：‘率都建旗。’”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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