flags flying, long bands or ribbons attached to flags, streamers, to cease, to desist from
person 人 (if kanji part written as 𠂉) moving a flag in both directions 方 on a pole: up means flying flags, down means a person has ceased to exist: half mast; old form of 偃
looks like a person 方 holding up a flag 𠂉 waving it in the air