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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 厶 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 参
- Common rank
- #799
- Unicode
- U+53C2
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Formation & memory
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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.
Words with 参
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 女子参政权 | women's suffrage | |
| 参卡尔 | Ivan Cankar (1876-1918), Slovenian modernist writer | |
| 参量空间 | moduli space (math.); parameter space | |
| 参加者 | participant | |
| 人参果 | 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 | United States Senate | |
| 西洋参 | American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) | |
| 人参 | ginseng | |
| 实际参数 | (computing) actual parameter; argument | |
| 参天 | (of a tree etc) to reach up to the sky | |
| 海参 | sea cucumber | |
| 参会 | to attend a conference or meeting | |
| 高参 | senior staff officer; staff officer of great talent | |
| 参数 | parameter | |
| 参政权 | suffrage; voting rights | |
| 参加 | to participate; to take part; to join | |
| 参赛者 | competitor; CL:名[ming2] | |
| 参选人 | election participant; candidate | |
| 花旗参 | American ginseng | |
| 参战 | to go to war; to engage in war |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 彡 — compare how they read.