幟

See also 帜

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 戠

Han character

幟 (radical 50 巾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中月卜戈日 (LBYIA), four-corner 4325₀)

1. flag, pennant
2. sign
3. fasten

References

• KangXi: page 336, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9080
• Dae Jaweon: page 643, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 755, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5E5F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

幟 (simplified 帜, Yale chi3)

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Japanese

Kanji

幟

Readings

• On: し (shi)
• Kun: のぼり (nobori)

Noun

幟 (hiragana のぼり, romaji nobori)

1. flag, banner

Compounds

• 旗幟 (きし, kishi)
• 鯉幟 (こいのぼり, koinobori)
• 五月幟 (ごがつのぼり, gogatsunobori and さつきのぼり, satsukinobori)

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Korean

Hanja

幟 (hangeul 치, revised chi, McCune-Reischauer ch'i)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

幟 (simplified 帜, pinyin zhì (zhi4), Wade-Giles chih⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

幟 (xí)