EntryCommonJLPT N1WaniKani 43
  1. Godan verb with 'u' ending, Transitive verb

    to attack; to assail; to make an assault; to strike; to hunt down

    奇妙な病気が町を襲った。
    A curious disease struck the town.
  2. to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.)

  3. to make a sudden visit

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

attack, advance on, succeed to, pile, heap

Kun
おそ.うかさ.ね
On
シュウ
Strokes
22
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1130 of 2500
Radical
clothes
WaniKani
Level 43

Built from

Used in names as

そい

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
2-16-6SKIP code
5e16.2The Kanji Dictionary
0173.2Four corner code
465deroo
8972Unicode hex code
1-29-17JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5443Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5510New Nelson (John Haig)
2917New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3633Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1856Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2533Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2025Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2181Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1262A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2983Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1094Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
34717Morohashi
1360A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1575Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1681Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1734Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1943Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1042Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1630Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2044Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
xi2Pinyin reading
seubKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
43WaniKani level