U+8972 "襲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
襲
U+8972 "襲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to attack," "to raid," or "to inherit" in the context of traditional East Asian languages. It is composed of the radical for clothing (衣) and phonetic components, and its historical usage spans classical Chinese texts as well as modern Japanese and Korean vocabularies. In Japanese, it appears in words like "shūgeki" (襲撃) meaning "assault" or "surprise attack," while in Chinese it can denote "to follow a pattern" or "to take over" in formal or literary expressions. The character often carries connotations of sudden or stealthy action, reflecting its etymological roots in martial or ceremonial contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8972 |
| 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 | 襲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 襲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA5 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8972 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008972 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8972 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C5A7 |
| kCCCII | 215823 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7B71 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7B71 |
| kCangjie | YPYHV |
| kCantonese | zaap6 |
| kCihaiT | 1221.304 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1594.170 |
| kDefinition | raid, attack; inherit |
| kEACC | 215823 |
| kFanqie | 似入 |
| kFenn | 367K |
| kFennIndex | 161.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0173.2 |
| kGB1 | 4714 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0689a |
| kHangul | 습:0E |
| kHanYu | 53121.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xí(46) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53121.020:xí |
| kHKGlyph | 3731 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1594.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53121.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1127.060 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4F2E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C5A7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3D31 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E4EE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6329 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7B71 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6663 |
| kJapanese | シュウ ジュウ おそう かさね かさねる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | OSOU KASANE TSUGU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUU JUU |
| kJis0 | 2917 |
| kKangXi | 1127.060 |
| kKorean | SUP |
| kLau | 1304 |
| kMandarin | xí |
| kMatthews | 2512 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3246a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024178 MJ024178:E0101 MJ024179:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 34717 34717:E0101 |
| kNelson | 5443 |
| kPhonetic | 38 856 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2363+145.6.16 C+2363+212.16.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 145.16 |
| kSBGY | 531.27 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "袭" U+88AD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 635.05 833.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xí粵zaap6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6002 |
| kTang | zip |
| kTotalStrokes | 22 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tập |
| kXerox | 254:141 |
| kXHC1983 | 1232.141:xí |