触る
さわる · sawaru · JLPT N4 · verb-godan
to touch
✋ Sounds like saw-a-roo: you saw a roo and had to touch it
Sawaru breaks into saw + a + roo(kangaroo). The kanji 触 is also read shoku, as in 接触 (sesshoku, contact) and 感触 (kanshoku, feel/texture), so the same character carries touch across both readings.