travel; being away from home as a guest; a military brigade; troops
旅 is travel away from home: 旅行 'to travel', 旅馆 'hotel', 旅游 'to tour'.
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ZDIC: 会意 — the old form pictured soldiers under a flag (旗 + 从 'following people'). The modern right side fuses those parts into one shape; its base has no usable font form (only the rare codepoint U+24D13), so it is taught whole with no inaccurate substitute.
WHOLE CHARACTER
travel; being away from home as a guest; a military brigade; troops
旅 is travel away from home: 旅行 'to travel', 旅馆 'hotel', 旅游 'to tour'.
ZDIC: 会意 — the old form pictured soldiers under a flag (旗 + 从 'following people'). The modern right side fuses those parts into one shape; its base has no usable font form (only the rare codepoint U+24D13), so it is taught whole with no inaccurate substitute.
LEFT: THE FLAG-BANNER SIDE (PART OF THE OLD FLAG PIECE 㫃)
square; direction; method
Standalone meaning is kept separate from its role in other characters.
In 旅: left: the flag-banner side (part of the old flag piece 㫃) A written piece of the flag side here, not the word fāng 'direction'.
RIGHT: THE FLAG-TOP FUSED WITH THE OLD 'FOLLOWING PEOPLE' BASE
Notice this part of the shape; it is not taught as a separate word in this lesson.
In 旅: right: the flag-top fused with the old 'following people' base Taught as one fused piece (visual aid); the base piece's only exact codepoint is missing from the production font (see font_gap_needs).
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