What 旐 means
旐 first named a military and ritual banner.
Texts from before the Han period include 出车, a poem in the Shijing (an early Chinese poetry collection), and the Zhouli, a text on rites and government; both name 旐. In the Zhouli's nine-banner scheme, it bears a tortoise and snake and is assigned to local military units for musters and ceremonies.
By the Han period, 旐 also named a long streamer hung over a coffin, identifying the dead and guiding the soul.
Archaic and ceremonial, with military-banner or funerary overtones.
A generic-flag use can sound like a funeral reference.
Who writes 旐
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA military standard from a set of signaling banners.
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1Why can 旐 look different across devices?
Different fonts draw its strokes differently; the underlying character remains 旐.
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- Also called
- 旐旗 · 丹旐
- Search it as
- meaning of 旐 · funeral banner 旐 · 旐 streamer · zhào · zhao4 · tortoise snake banner
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
旐\65D0Codes and encoding1 code points
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