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Chinese symbol for “flag”

国旗
guó qí
Traditional: 國旗
flag (of a country); measure word: 面 (miàn)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for flag is 国旗 (guó qí), defined as: flag (of a country); measure word: 面 (miàn).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

国 guó
country, nation, state; national
radical 31 ⼞ · 8 strokes
旗 qí
banner, flag, streamer
radical 70 ⽅ · 14 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “flag”

WordPinyinMeaning
旗 (旂)qíflag; variant of 旗 (qí)
旗子qí ziflag; banner
帜 (幟)zhìflag
旗帜 (旗幟)qí zhìensign; flag
旗qíbanner; flag

Related words

Other words that share a character with 国旗.

WordPinyinMeaning
国家 (國家)guó jiācountry; nation; state
国际 (國際)guó jìinternational
全国 (全國)quán guówhole nation; nationwide
国内 (國內)guó nèidomestic; internal (to a country)
我国 (我國)wǒ guómy country; our country
外国 (外國)wài guóforeign country
旗下qí xiàunder the banner of
旗帜 (旗幟)qí zhìensign; flag

See also: Japanese symbol for “flag”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.