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旗

旗

See also: 旂

Translingual

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 旗

Glyph origin

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, OC *ɡɯ) : semantic 㫃 + phonetic 其 ‎(OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ).

Pronunciation

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
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

References

Japanese

Kanji

旗

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. national flag
  2. banner
  3. standard

Readings

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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