旗

See also: 旂

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡɯ): semantic 㫃 + phonetic 其 ‎(OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ)

Han character

旗 (radical 70 方+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人廿金 (YSOTC), four-corner 0828₁, composition ⿸⿰方𠂉其)

1. banner, flag, streamer

References

• KangXi: page 484, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13687
• Dae Jaweon: page 846, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2183, character 13
• Unihan data for U+65D7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		旗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): kî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kii
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡɨ/▼

Rime
Character	旗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨ/
Li Rong	/ɡiə/
Wang Li	/ɡĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ](r)ə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	旗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qí
Middle Chinese	‹ gi ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ](r)ə/
English	flag
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	旗
Reading #	1/1
No.	9948
Phonetic component	其
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	其
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯ/

Noun

旗

1. flag

Derived terms

• 旗子 (qízi)

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #10566”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji

旗

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. national flag
2. banner
3. standard

Readings

• Goon: ぎ (gi)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: はた (hata)

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Korean

Hanja

旗 • ‎(gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

旗 (cờ, kỳ, kì)

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