Taxonomy of meanings for 觸:　　

  • 觸 chù (OC: thjoɡ MC: tɕʰiok) 尺玉切 入 廣韻：【突也尺玉切四 】
    • ENCOUNTER
      • vtoNhappen to run into
      • vtoNfigurativeencounter (> be perceived by); meet
    • KNOCK
      • vtoNknock against (producing a sound)
      • vtoNderivedrun intoCH
    • OFFEND
      • vtoNoffend
    • STIMULATE
      • vtoNpassivebe stimulated into action 觸其情 "be stimulated into action by instincts"
    • TOUCH
      • vtoNtouch; dash into; bump into; bump one's head against (also deliberately)
  • 觸 chù (OC: thjoɡ MC: tɕʰiok) 尺玉切 入 廣韻：【觸古文 】

    Additional information about 觸

    說文解字: 【觸】，牴也。从角、蜀聲。 【尺玉切】

      Criteria
    • MEET

      1. The current general word for meeting someone by coincidence is yù 遇, and going to meet someone is jiàn 見.

      2. Huì 會 refers to an arranged meeting, usually between more than two persons.

      3. Zāo 遭 refers to being exposed to something or running into someone, and the focus is on the fact that the encounter is generally hostile ( 遭宋司馬，將要而殺之 "ran into the Marshal of Sòng and wanted to kill him").

      4. Féng 逢 seems to be a dialect word for encountering something, but in early times this word has a much more limited range of syntactic functions, while from Han times it tended to replace yù 遇 as the standard word for encountering a person, later to be replaced in colloquial Chinese by its cognate pèng 碰.

      5. Chù 觸 is occasionally used to refer to someone bumping into someone else.

      Word relations
    • Ant: (ENCOUNTER)避 / 辟/AVOID Bì 避 (ant. mào 冒"expose oneself to"), unlike miǎn 免, is always deliberate and describes a strategy of action which successfully avoids an undesirable impending danger. [DELIBERATE]
    • Ant: (ENCOUNTER)避 / 辟/AVOID Bì 避 (ant. mào 冒"expose oneself to"), unlike miǎn 免, is always deliberate and describes a strategy of action which successfully avoids an undesirable impending danger. [DELIBERATE]
    • Contrast: (ENCOUNTER)被/SUFFER Beì 被 tends to refer to exposure to undesirable effects from the outside.
    • Contrast: (OFFEND)犯/OFFEND Fàn 犯 (ant. cǒng 從 "follow obediently") refers as a derogatory term to a deliberate and active breaking of a rule.
    • Contrast: (ENCOUNTER)被/SUFFER Beì 被 tends to refer to exposure to undesirable effects from the outside.
    • Contrast: (ENCOUNTER)逢/ENCOUNTER Féng 逢 seems to be a dialect word synonymous with yù 遇, a word which it came to replace at later stages of the language as the standard word.
    • Assoc: (KNOCK)抵/KNOCK
    • Synon: (OFFEND)犯/OFFEND Fàn 犯 (ant. cǒng 從 "follow obediently") refers as a derogatory term to a deliberate and active breaking of a rule.
    • Synon: (ENCOUNTER)遇/ENCOUNTER Yù 遇 refers to having been exposed to something (often something positive) by coincidence.
    • Synon: (ENCOUNTER)遭/ENCOUNTER Zāo 遭 refers to running into something (often something negative).