触

Meaning

触 centers on physical or sensory contact: touching, feeling, or hitting something. The senses of proclaiming, announcing, or conflict are less common and may stem from the idea of making contact in a broader, figurative way.

• 触れるふれる
  N3

  to touch; to feel

• 触るさわる
  N5

  to touch; to feel; to handle

• 接触せっしょく
  N1

  touch; contact; touching

• 触れふれ

  proclamation; official notice

• 触手しょくしゅ

  feeler; tentacle; antenna

• 感触かんしょく
  N1

  feel (of something); touch; texture; sensation

• 触れ合いふれあい
  N1

  contact; connectedness; rapport; mutual touching

• 触媒しょくばい

  catalyst

• 気触れかぶれ

  rash; eruption (in response to a skin irritant)

• 触発しょくはつ

  detonation by contact; contact detonation

• 抵触ていしょく

  infringement (of a law, treaty, etc.); contravention; running afoul

• 触りさわり

  feel; touch

• 触そく

  contact; touch

• 前触れまえぶれ
  N1

  advance warning; previous notice; prior announcement

• 触覚しょっかく

  sense of touch

• 触れ合うふれあう
  N1

  to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with

• 触れ込みふれこみ

  (exaggerated) professing to be; passing oneself off as

• 手触りてざわり

  feel; touch

• 一触即発いっしょくそくはつ

  critical (touch and go) situation; explosive situation

• 肌触りはだざわり

  feel; touch; texture

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