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袭

xí

raid

Original meaning: 

putting on extra clothing

Simplified form of 襲. Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 龖 represents the sound.

Components
龖 sound,simplified,remnant component

龖  Sound Simplified Remnant component

dá

  

flight of a dragon

衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

clothes

Evolution

袭 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
袭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
袭 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
袭 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
袭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

袭 (襲) 

xí

raid, attack; inherit; to attack; to inherit; classifier for suits (esp. of funeral robes)

Most common words with 袭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

袭击

raid

袭

to attack

突袭

surprise attack

空袭

air raid

偷袭

to raid

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 24.1070% of movies

1222nd most common character in movies

1213th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

襲

Unicode

U+88AD


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