接触
せっしょく · sesshoku · JLPT N1 · noun
contact
🤝 接 = receive + 触 = touch: receive a touch, so contact
接 means join or receive, and 触 means touch or feel. Together they describe two things joining through touch, which gives the sense of contact.
接 — hand 扌 + concubine 妾 (phonetic)
接 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 carries the meaning of receiving or joining with the hand, while 妾 supplies the sound. From 'taking with the hand' it broadened to 'receive, meet, connect, join together'.