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A column of signs on a flag.
Also known as: Mongolian national emblem
The Mongolian national emblem composed of a stacked sequence of geometric elements.
Serves as the national emblem of Mongolia and appears on the national flag.
Contexts: History, Public information
Derived from a character of the Soyombo script devised in the seventeenth century, so a national emblem is a letter of an alphabet that is otherwise almost unused.
Contexts: History, Public information
Each element carries a traditional reading; the readings are the tradition's and the state's own and are recorded as such rather than asserted.
Contexts: History, Public information
A vertical column of elements — a flame above sun and moon, downward and upward triangles, horizontal bars, and two vertical bars flanking a pair of interlocking fish.