TSUMUGU · TOCFL 6 (est.) · 字
襄
襄 ＝ 衣 ＋ 𤕦
ㄒㄧㄤ · xiāng
verb — to assist (literary); place-name character
字源 FORM — what the parts do
𤕦空the worn middle — once the sound-bearer, its reading lost from use
Clothes (衣) split open — collar above, hem below — wrapping a dense middle block that once carried the sound; its reading wore away with the strokes. The senses that survive are the helper's, 襄助, and the map's, 襄陽. As a sound it lives on loudly in 讓、壤、釀.
意 · Meanings
(本義)解衣下田（說文）— coat off, into the field — 說文's gloss
→襄助— to assist (literary)
→襄陽— the place name常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension