TSUMUGU · B1 (est.) · 字
旗
旗 ＝ 㫃 ＋ 其
ㄑㄧˊ · qí
noun — flag, banner
字源 FORM — what the parts do
㫃義a banner streaming from its pole — the flag-radical, the slanted top-left you can't read alone
㫃 is a banner trailing from a pole in the wind — the flag-radical, hard to recognize on its own. 其 qí beside it carries the sound, unchanged. Together: a banner. From the war-flag with its streamers it widens to every flag — 國旗 a national flag, 旗幟 a banner, 旗艦 the flagship.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
風一吹，旗面在杆頭整片揚了開來。
The wind catches it; the whole banner streams out from the pole.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)旗、旗幟— flag, banner常用
→國旗、軍旗— national flag; war flag常用
→旗艦、旗號— flagship; signal-flag
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension