jīng

banner or flag adorned with feathers

Components

Meaning component
fāng, fang square

flag

Sound component
shēng, sheng life

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsjeng[ts]eŋpennon, banner
Zhengzhangʔsleŋ
Unicodetziɛng

說文解字

游車載旌,析羽注旄首,所以精進士卒。从㫃生聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica