戳
chuō · HSK 7
to poke
👉🔪 CHEW-AWW! — the sound you make when poked hard
chuō sounds like a pained CHEW-AWW yelp. The character has 翟 (pheasant) over 手 (hand radical as 扌) — a pecking bird jabs with its beak, your hand jabs with a finger or blade.
戳 — hand 扌 + 翟 (di/zhuó, phonetic)
戳 is a phono-semantic compound. The hand radical 扌 indicates an action done with the hand, while 翟 supplies the sound. The character originally meant to jab or poke with a pointed object, and it now extends to stamping (as with a seal) and to a colloquial sense of standing upright.