U+88AD "袭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
袭
U+88AD "袭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to attack" or "to raid," deriving from the semantic radical for "clothing" combined with the phonetic component, and it carries connotations of surprise or inheritance. In modern usage, it appears in words such as "袭击" meaning "surprise attack" or "突袭" meaning "raid," and it also has a secondary sense of "to follow a pattern" or "to inherit," as seen in terms like "因袭" meaning "to follow tradition." This character is categorized under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, standardized for use in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, reflecting its historical and practical role in expressing concepts of aggression or continuity across East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+88AD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 袭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 袭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA2 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x88AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000088AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u88ad |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 275823 |
| kCangjie | IPYHV |
| kCantonese | zaap6 |
| kDefinition | raid, attack; inherit |
| kEACC | 275823 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4373 |
| kGB0 | 4714 |
| kHanYu | 53080.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xí(46) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53080.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1115.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4F2E |
| kTGH | 2013:2246 |
| kKangXi | 1115.211 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6002 |
| kMandarin | xí |
| kPhonetic | 38* 856* |
| kRSUnicode | 145.5 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 629.06 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 394.020:xí |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "襲" U+8972 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1232.140:xí |