触覚(しょっかく)

しょっかく
noun
sense of touch
sense
1. sense of touch; tactile sense
The ability to perceive through physical contact, including pressure, texture, and temperature.
目(め)を閉(と)じて触覚(しょっかく)だけで物(もの)を当(あ)てる。
Guess objects using only your sense of touch with your eyes closed.
赤(あか)ちゃんは触覚(しょっかく)が敏感(びんかん)だ。
Babies have a sensitive sense of touch.
2. antenna; feeler
The sensory appendages on insects and crustaceans used to feel their environment.
昆虫(こんちゅう)は触覚(しょっかく)で周囲(しゅうい)の情報(じょうほう)を得(え)る。
Insects gather information about their surroundings through their antennae.
カタツムリが触覚(しょっかく)を伸(の)ばしている。
The snail is extending its antennae.
アリは触覚(しょっかく)を使(つか)って仲間(なかま)と情報(じょうほう)を交換(こうかん)している。
Ants use their antennae to exchange information with their companions.

触覚(しょっかく) has two meanings:

1. Sense of touch (one of the five senses)
2. Antenna/feelers (on insects)

The five senses (五感(ごかん)):

Common expressions

Watch out

An insect's antennae are 触角(しょっかく), a different word with the same reading (casually also アンテナ). Writing 触覚(しょっかく) for antennae is a common slip.

Related Words

Related: 視覚(しかく) (sight)
Related: 聴覚(ちょうかく) (hearing)
Related: 嗅覚(きゅうかく) (smell)
Related: 味覚(みかく) (taste)
Related: 五感(ごかん) (the five senses)
Compare: 皮膚感覚(ひふかんかく) (cutaneous sensation)
Related: 感覚(かんかく) (sense, sensation, feeling)
Related: 聴力(ちょうりょく) (hearing, hearing ability)
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Added 2026.1.14 20:02 · Revised 2026.10.7 4:24
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