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觸

chù

knock against, touch, to butt with the horns

Phonosemantic compound. 角 represents the meaning and 蜀 represents the sound.

Components
角 meaning component

角  Meaning component

jiǎo, jué

  

horn

蜀 sound component

蜀  Sound component

shǔ

  

short name for Sichuan

Evolution

觸 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
觸 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
觸 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
觸 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

触 (觸) 

chù

touch; butt, ram, gore; to touch; to make contact with sth; to stir up sb's emotions

Most common words with 觸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

接触

to touch

触

to touch

触摸

to touch

触动

to touch

触及

to touch on (a topic)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰok

tsyhowk

chù

knock against


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 31.6675% of movies

1209th most common character in movies

1207th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

20

Simplified

触

Unicode

U+89F8

Shuowen

“觸，抵也。从角，蜀聲。”


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