noun #5,361

Meanings

  1. 1 flag
  2. 2 banner

Examples

Guóqí
national flag
Hóngqí
red flag; red banner

Tips

memory
(direction marker) on the left — a flag marks direction

Components

radical
yǎn
fluttering banner
Left side 㫃 is the 'fluttering banner' radical — a base with a 2-stroke pennant streaming from the top, picturing cloth flapping on a flagpole. It is the indexing element for the whole flag-family — (flag), (clan-banner = lineage), (travel under banner). below 㫃 is the conventional dictionary lookup key.
phonetic
his; that one
Right phonetic supplies the sound — qí matches directly with no shift. originally pictured a winnowing-basket and was later borrowed for the third-person possessive. Same phonetic produces (qī, period), (qí, chess), (qí, flag), (qī, deceive) — a fertile rhyme group anchored by the qí/qī sound.

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