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Japanese 触
Simplified 触
Traditional 觸

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

  • 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
trad. 觸
simp. 触*
alternative forms 𧢻
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).

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.

Note:

  • chhiok - literary;
  • tak - vernacular (俗) (“to butt; to argue; to come into contact with a hard object; to take a bit of notes”).
  • Dialectal data
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/

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)

觸

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 触)

  1. to touch; to contact

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

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