触

Related characters

 * (Orthodox of  触 )

Glyph origin
Unorthodox variant found in the Ming dynasty orthographic dictionary 《字學三正》. Also found in 《》, a dictionary compiled in 1930.

Eventually adopted as an official simplified character by the People's Republic of China in the 1956.

Glyph origin
Found in the historical published during the Qing dynasty and cited from 《》, a narrative work on ancient China written by  during the  period (265–316 AD).

The scholars who compiled the Kangxi dictionary may have confused this character with which is visually similar.

Definitions

 * 1)  white fish with red tail
 * 2)  type of fish that is male

Kanji

 * 1) to touch; to contact