旗

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See also: 旂
旗 U+65D7, 旗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65D7
← 旖
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 旘 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

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

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).

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
Baxter gi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡɨ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gɨ/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiə/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭə/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kei4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 旗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gi ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(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. * 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/

Definitions

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. (Hong Kong Cantonese taxi driver jargon) fare; customer; trip (Classifier: 支 c)
  5. (Hong Kong Cantonese slang) opium pipe
  6. a surname

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (旗):
  • → Japanese: 旗(き) (ki)
  • → Korean: 기(旗) (gi)
  • → Vietnamese: kì (旗)

Others:

References

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

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pata.

Kanji in this term
旗
はた
Grade: 4
kun'yomi
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja

Pronunciation

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
Descendants

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
旗
き
Grade: 4
on'yomi
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja

Affix

旗(き) • (ki) 

  1. flag; banner

Noun

旗(き) • (ki) 

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

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 旗 (MC gi).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 끵 (Yale: kkùy)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527 긧 (Yale: kùy-s) 긔 (Yale: kùy)

Pronunciation

Hanja

旗 (eumhun 깃발 기 (gitbal gi))

  1. hanja form? of 기 (“flag; banner”)

Compounds

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

旗: Hán Nôm readings: cờ, kỳ, kì

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