Mao Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Square (fāng) 旍 Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 484, Entry 01 Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Same as the character for banner (jing). Five Classics Textual Research (Wujing Wenzi): The character for banner (jing) is derived from the character for life (sheng). Writing it as 旍 is incorrect. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Yuan Shao: Therefore, they again raised banners and donned armor.