quincolor

QUINCOLOR FLAG OF CHINA RAISED / It Flies Only Two or Three Minutes Over the Legation in Washington. / The red, white, blue, green and yellow flag of the new Chinese republic was raised over the legation in this city for the first time yesterday, the Chinese new year, according to the old calendar, but owing to the omission of some formality it remained aloft only two or three minutes.

1912 February 20, The Detroit Free Press, volume 77, number 148, Detroit, Mich., page 3, column 6

There are about three hundred of these distributed by color as follows: 136 violet, 71 red, 33 incarnats, 2 rose, 6 white, 36 piquettes (picoties), 9 tricolor, a quadricolor and a quincolor.

1927, Papers Presented at the International Conference on Flower and Fruit Sterility, page 42

In this way, the new state had birth, and the new quincolor national flag was hoisted at Changchun, now renamed Hsinching (New Capital) where the central government was removed from Mukden, long the capital of Chang Hsueh-liang’s administration.

1933, The Japan Magazine, page 44, column 1