旌 (jīng): (classical) a feather-tasselled…

Meanings

1 (classical) a feather-tasselled banner
2 (classical) to honour publicly; to make manifest

Characters

旌

jīng

feather-tasselled banner

Examples

古代用旌这种旗子表扬美德。

Gǔdài yòng jīng zhèzhǒng qízi biǎoyáng měidé.

In old texts this character is a banner used to signal or to praise virtue.

Tips

history

旌 is not used alone in modern Chinese; it survives in classical 旌旗 (banners) and 旌表 (to publicly honour). It uses the flag-banner radical (the leaning-pole-with-streamers element, also in 旗 and 族) plus the phonetic 生.

register

Classical only; modern Chinese uses 旗帜 for a banner and 表扬 for public praise.

Components

radical

㫃

flying banner radical

This left-and-top element is the flag-banner radical — a pole with streamers blowing in the wind. It supplies the meaning and groups 旌 with banner characters like 旗 and 族.

phonetic

生 shēng

to be born; to grow (phonetic)

生 supplies the sound, drifted from shēng to jīng. It is the common standalone character for being born or growing, reused here only for its reading.