参
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to take part in; to participate; to join; to attend; to counsel; unequal; varied; irregular; uneven; not uniform; abbr. for 參議院|参议院 Senate, Upper House
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Dict coverage rank #799 U+53C2
How 参 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
How to remember it
participate · Heisig RSH #1308
St. Bernard dog + elbow + rooster tail — as a component also called: brawl
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 彡
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 彡 (shān) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 彡 sound component | shān | hair; sunlight |
| 珍 | zhēn | a treasure, a precious thing; rare, valuable |
| 衫 | shān | shirt, robe, jacket, gown |
| 杉 | shān | various species of pine and fir |
| 钐 | shān | samarium |
| 彤 | tóng | red, vermillion |
| 肜 | róng | to sacrifice on two successive days |
Words containing 参
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 女子参政权 | nǚ zǐ cān zhèng quán | women's suffrage |
| 参卡尔 | Cān kǎ ěr | Ivan Cankar (1876-1918), Slovenian modernist writer |
| 参量空间 | cān liàng kōng jiān | moduli space (math.); parameter space |
| 参加者 | cān jiā zhě | participant |
| 人参果 | rén shēn guǒ | fictional fruit in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 ji4]; pe… |
| 美国参议院 | Měi guó Cān yì yuàn | United States Senate |
| 西洋参 | xī yáng shēn | American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) |
| 人参 | rén shēn | ginseng |
| 实际参数 | shí jì cān shù | (computing) actual parameter; argument |
| 参天 | cān tiān | (of a tree etc) to reach up to the sky |
| 海参 | hǎi shēn | sea cucumber |
| 参会 | cān huì | to attend a conference or meeting |
| 高参 | gāo cān | senior staff officer; staff officer of great talent |
| 参数 | cān shù | parameter |
| 参政权 | cān zhèng quán | suffrage; voting rights |
| 参加 | cān jiā | to participate; to take part; to join |
| 参赛者 | cān sài zhě | competitor; CL:名[ming2] |
| 参选人 | cān xuǎn rén | election participant; candidate |
| 花旗参 | huā qí shēn | American ginseng |
| 参战 | cān zhàn | to go to war; to engage in war |