触
触 — Contact
contact, touch, feel, hit, proclaim, announce
On’yomiショク (shoku)
Kun’yomiふれる (fureru)
Kun’yomiさわる (sawaru)
Kun’yomiさわ (sawa)
Stroke order (13 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 触
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 接触 | せっしょく sesshoku | touch; contact; touching |
| 感触 | かんしょく kanshoku | feel (of something); touch; texture |
| 抵触 | ていしょく teishoku | infringement (of a law, treaty, etc.); contravention; running afoul |
| 触れ合い | ふれあい fureai | contact; connectedness; rapport |
| 触発 | しょくはつ shokuhatsu | detonation by contact; contact detonation; touching off (something) |
| 触る | さわる sawaru | to touch; to feel; to handle |
Study notes
触 is a JLPT N2 kanji written with 13 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #904 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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