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Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 𤕦 represents the sound, both added later. Iconic origin unclear. Possibly depicts a person reaching out his hands and loosening his shirt to assist in pulling a plow.

Components

衣
衣 Meaning component

Added later to the original iconographic character.

𤕦
𤕦 Sound component

This came from later phoneticization of earlier components rather than having originally been used by itself as a phonetic loan.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 𤕦 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartsjangs-naŋ remove
sjangs-naŋ Xiāng (personal name)

說文解字

《說文》：“襄，漢令：解衣耕謂之襄。从衣，聲。，古文襄。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫李学勤 《字源》 p.734
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)