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觸

觸

See also: 触

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad. 觸
simp. 触

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 觸
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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, OC *tʰjoɡ) : semantic 角 + phonetic 蜀 ‎(OC *djoɡ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 觸
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵¹/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰu⁵³/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂu²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂu²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fu²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂv̩²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂu¹³/
Lanzhou /p͡fu¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡sʰəu²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡su³¹/
/t͡sʰu⁵³/
Guiyang /t͡su²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂu³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰuʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂuəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡suʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡suəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰuʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰio⁵/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂʰəu²⁴/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂʰəɯ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰuʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰuk̚¹/
Taoyuan /ʃuk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰok̚⁵/
/t͡sok̚⁵/
Nanning /t͡sʰuk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡suk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰiɔk̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰouʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰu²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰok̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sok̚⁵/
Rime
Character 觸
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 燭 (8)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 尺玉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰɨok̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰiok̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰiok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰuawk̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiok̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰĭwok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰi̯wok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 觸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyhowk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰok/
English knock against

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 觸
Reading # 1/1
No. 11838
Phonetic
component		 蜀
Rime
group		 屋
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 觸
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰjoɡ/

Definitions

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​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

觸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 触)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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