觸

See also: 触

觸 U+89F8, 觸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89F8 ← 觷 [U+89F7] CJK Unified Ideographs 觹 → [U+89F9]

Translingual

Japanese	触
Simplified	触
Traditional	觸

Han character

觸 (Kangxi radical 148, 角+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 弓月田中戈 (NBWLI), four-corner 2622₇, composition ⿰角蜀)

Derived characters

• 𫬼, 𧥔

Related characters

• 触 (Simplified Chinese and Japanese shinjitai)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1145, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35181
• Dae Jaweon: page 1611, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3933, character 11
• Unihan data for U+89F8

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Chinese

trad.		觸
simp.		触*
alternative forms		𧢻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 觸
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (蜀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
襡	*toːʔ, *toːɡs, *doːʔ, *doːɡ, *djoɡ
噣	*toːɡs, *tuɡs, *rtoːɡ, *tjoɡ
斣	*toːɡs
歜	*sdoːmʔ, *tʰjoɡ
斀	*rtoːɡ
孎	*rtoːɡ, *toɡ
濁	*rdoːɡ
鐲	*rdoːɡ, *zroːɡ, *djoɡ
鸀	*rdoːɡ, *tjoɡ
擉	*sʰroːɡ
獨	*doːɡ
髑	*doːɡ
韣	*doːɡ, *tjoɡ, *djoɡ
斸	*toɡ
钃	*toɡ
欘	*toɡ
躅	*doɡ
蠋	*doɡ, *tjoɡ
燭	*tjoɡ
囑	*tjoɡ
矚	*tjoɡ
屬	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
属	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
蠾	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
觸	*tʰjoɡ
臅	*tʰjoɡ
觕	*sʰlaː, *zlaːʔ, *tʰjoɡ
蜀	*djoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tʰjoɡ) : semantic 角 + phonetic 蜀 (OC *djoɡ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 觸

1. to touch; to come in contact with
2. to butt; to ram; to gore
3. to affront; to offend
4. to stir up; to invoke; to cause
5. a surname

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Japanese

Shinjitai	触
Kyūjitai	觸

Kanji

觸

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 触)

1. to touch; to contact

Readings

• Go-on: そく (soku)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: ふれる (fureru, 觸れる)、さわる (sawaru, 觸る)、ふれ (fure)

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Korean

Hanja

觸 • (chok) (hangeul 촉, revised chok, McCune–Reischauer ch'ok, Yale chok)

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