raid

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
龍 meaning component

  Meaning component

lóng

  

dragon

衣 sound component

  Sound component

  

clothes

Evolution

襲 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
襲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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

Most common words with 襲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

袭击

raid

to attack

突袭

surprise attack

空袭

air raid

偷袭

to raid