Chinese Character Wiki

襲

xí

raid

Phonosemantic compound. 龍 represents the meaning and 衣 represents the sound.

Components
龍 meaning component

龍  Meaning component

lóng

  

dragon

衣 sound component

衣  Sound component

yī, yì

  

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

袭 (襲) 

xí

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

袭

to attack

突袭

surprise attack

空袭

air raid

偷袭

to raid

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*sə-l[ə]p

zip

xí

repeat; additional robe

*sə.l[ə]p

zip

xí

surprise attack


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

22

Simplified

袭

Unicode

U+8972

Shuowen

“襲，左衽袍。从衣，龖省聲。，籀文襲不省。”


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