What 旍 means
It is a variant of 旌, the character for a feathered banner. An early Chinese book, 吕氏春秋 (a collection of political and philosophical writings), uses 旍 in 云旍, literally “cloud banner.” The banner word 旌旗 refers to flags or standards.
Such banners marked groups, guided movement, and rallied soldiers. Oracle-bone inscriptions (writing carved on bones used for divination) and bronze inscriptions preserve 㫃 as an early banner form, part of the same visual tradition. In classical Chinese, 旌 also has senses such as “mark,” “display,” and “commend.”
Classical banner vocabulary; obscure in casual conversation.
Use 旌 in ordinary Chinese writing; 旍 can look like a typo without historical context.
Who writes 旍
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2Questions people ask
1Why does 旍 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 旍
- Also called
- 旌
- Search it as
- jing · 旌旗 · feathered banner · banner character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
旍\65CDCodes and encoding1 code points
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