參 (cān)
to participate; to join; to refer to
How 參 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 厽 — N/A
- Traditional
- 參
- Simplified
- 叁
Components
- 厽 N/A
- 人 human
- 彡 bristle/beard
參 has 3 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- sān
- three (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
- cān
- take part in; participate; join; attend
- shēn
- ginseng
Common words using 參
- 參加 cānjiā
- to participate; to take part; to join
- 參與 cānyù
- to participate (in sth)
- 人參 rénshēn
- ginseng
- 參考 cānkǎo
- consultation; reference; to consult
- 參觀 cānguān
- to look around; to tour; to visit
- 參賽 cānsài
- to compete; to take part in a competition
- 丹參 dānshēn
- Salvia miltiorrhiza
- 內參 nèicān
- internal reference (within the same publication)
- 參加者 cānjiāzhě
- participant
- 參半 cānbàn
- half; half and half; both ... and ...
- 參天 cāntiān
- reach high to the sky; tall; of great height
- 參展 cānzhǎn
- to exhibit at or take part in a trade show etc
參 in a sentence
我想參加這個活動。
Wǒ xiǎng cānjiā zhège huódòng.
“I want to participate in this activity.”
How common is 參?
參 is the 4,380th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.8% of all running text.
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