Yin Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Turban (jīn) Zhi Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 336, Entry 06 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced chi (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): A type of banner or flag. Guangyun (Guangyun): A flag or banner. Zigu (Zigu): A sign or marker. Guangya (Guangya): A pennant. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Emperor Gaozu: The flags and banners were all red. Book of Han (Qianhan), Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin: Pulled down the Zhao banners and planted the red banners of the Han. Commentary: Suo Yin states that a banner is one and a half zhang long and half a bolt of cloth wide. Also written interchangeably as zhi. Book of Han (Qianhan), Treatise on Food and Money: Constructed towership vessels over ten zhang long, and added flags and banners on top of them. Commentary: Shigu states that the character here is read as zhi. Also means a mark or sign. Book of the Later Han (Houhan), Biography of Yu Xu: Used colored thread to sew onto the hem of the garment as a mark. Commentary: Zhi means a mark. Also: Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui): Pronounced zhi (falling tone). Also: Guangyun (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui): Pronounced shi (falling tone). The meaning is the same.