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旗: flag, banner

Also: standard

JLPT N114 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

方 and 𠂉 carry the meaning · 其 gives the sound

14 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

キki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 旗手きしゅstandard-bearer
  • 反旗はんきbanner of revolt
  • 国旗こっきnational flag
  • 半旗はんきflag at half-mast
  • 星条旗せいじょうきStars and Stripes
  • 日章旗にっしょうきthe Japanese flag

はたhata · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 旗はたflag
  • 手旗てばたsemaphore flag

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)㫃 flag (meaning) + 其 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 旗 (rev. 92200647), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Direction (方) + its/that (其). A banner "pointing" the "direction" for the troops and showing exactly which "side" the army belongs to in a conflict.”
From the 方 direction story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
方

Also built on direction (方)

All 14
𠂉

Also built on 𠂉

其

Also built on 其

旗 takes the 其 family's reading, キ (ki).

Also read キ

55 kanji share this on'yomiAll 55

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
旗 flag · 方 + 𠂉
vs棋 chess piece · 木
旗 has 方 + 𠂉 where 棋 has 木.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · qí

Same form: 旗 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
旗 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
旗 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin qí most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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