旗

See also: 旂

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		旗
alternative forms		旂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 旗
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (其) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
基	*kɯ
箕	*kɯ
朞	*kɯ
稘	*kɯ
萁	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
期	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諅	*kɯ, *ɡɯs
其	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
錤	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諆	*kɯ, *kʰɯ
欺	*kʰɯ
娸	*kʰɯ
魌	*kʰɯ
僛	*kʰɯ
唭	*kʰɯs
棋	*ɡɯ
旗	*ɡɯ
淇	*ɡɯ
祺	*ɡɯ, *ɡɯ
琪	*ɡɯ
騏	*ɡɯ
綦	*ɡɯ
麒	*ɡɯ
蜞	*ɡɯ
綨	*ɡɯ
蜝	*ɡɯ
棊	*ɡɯ
碁	*ɡɯ
鯕	*ɡɯ
踑	*ɡɯ
藄	*ɡɯ
櫀	*ɡɯ
璂	*ɡɯ
禥	*ɡɯ
惎	*ɡɯs
帺	*ɡɯs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡɯ) : semantic 㫃 (“flag”) + phonetic 其 (OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 旗

1. flag; banner (Classifier: 面 m; 支 c)
2. (historical) banner (type of administrative and military division under the Qing dynasty)
3. banner (type of administrative division in Inner Mongolia, China)
4. a surname

Descendants

• → Zhuang: geiz

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #10566”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

旗

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. national flag
2. banner
3. standard

Readings

• Go-on: ぎ (gi)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: はた (hata, 旗, Jōyō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
旗
はた Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Noun

旗(はた) • (hata) 

1. flag

   プエルトリコの旗(はた)

   Pueruto Riko no hata

   flag of Puerto Rico

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
旗
き Grade: 4
on'yomi

Noun

旗(き) • (ki) 

1. banner (type of administrative division in Inner Mongolia, China)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 旗 (cờ, kỳ, kì)

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