觸

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

• 𫬼, 𧥔

• 触 (Simplified Chinese and Japanese shinjitai)

• 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

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

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

Compare Tibetan གཏུག (gtug, “to meet; to touch”) (Hill, 2019). An older theory by STEDT compares the word with Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/r-tuk (“to cut, knock, pound”), and compares the first two syllables of Burmese တောက်တောက်ကြော် (tauktaukkrau, “fried minced meat”), as well as a wide range of Sinitic words:

• 擣 (OC *tuːʔ, “to beat, pound rice”)
• 殊 (OC *to, *djo, “to cut off, die”)
• 祝 (OC *tjuɡs, *tjuɡ, “to cut off, pray”)
• 斵, 斫 (OC *tjaɡ, “to chop, carve, chisel, break open”)
• 椓 (“to beat, strike”)
• 啄 (OC *rtoːɡ, *toːɡ, “to peck”)
• 斀 (OC *rtoːɡ, “to castrate”)
• 誅 (OC *to, “to reprove, punish, kill”)
• 咮 (OC *tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo, “beak; to peck”)
• 斸 (OC *toɡ, “to cut, cut out”)

The internet slang sense is a phonetic borrowing from English true.

觸

1. to touch; to come in contact with
2. to butt; to ram; to gore (as with animal horns)
3. to affront; to offend; to violate
4. to stir up; to invoke; to cause (feelings, etc.)
5. (Hokkien) to argue; to have a row; to come to blows; to scuffle
6. (Hokkien) to come into contact with a hard object (stone, horns, etc.)
7. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to take a bit of notes (with a pen or pencil)
8. a surname
9. (Taiwan, Internet slang) true (interjection of approval)

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 触)

1. to touch; to contact

• 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)

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

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