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旗

qí

banner

Phonosemantic compound. 㫃 represents the meaning and 其 represents the sound.

Components
㫃 meaning component

㫃  Meaning component

yǎn

  

flags flying

其 sound component

其  Sound component

qí

  

its, his, (3p possessive)

Evolution

旗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
旗 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
旗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

旗  

qí

banner, flag, streamer; banner; flag; (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗[Bā​qí]); 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。’”


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