noun #5,361

Meanings

  1. 1 flag
  2. 2 banner

Examples

HSK 3
Xuéxiào shēngqǐ le guóqí.
The school raised the national flag.
HSK 7-9
Dàlóu dǐngshàng piāoyáng zhe yī miàn hóngqí.
A red flag fluttered atop the building.

Tips

memory
(direction marker) on the left: a flag marks direction.

Components

radical
yǎn
fluttering banner
Left side 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 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 (period), (chess), (flag), and (deceive), a fertile rhyme group anchored by the qí/qī sound.

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