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参 kanji
nonplussed, three (in documents), going, coming, visiting, visit, be defeated, die, be madly in love, participate, take part in
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
サンシン
Kun readings
まいるまい-まじわるみつ
Variant forms
參叅Words with 参
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —参考書Popularreference book; study-aid book; supplemental textbook; student handbook
- —参事官Popularcouncillor; councilor
- —参政権Popularsuffrage; franchise
- —授業参観Popularparents' day (day when parents observe their children in school)
- —住民参加Popularresident participation; citizen participation; public involvement (in local governance)
- —見参seeing; meeting
- —参賀congratulatory visit to the Imperial Palace (e.g. at New Year)
- —参会attendance (at a meeting)
- —参議participation in government; state councillor (in the ritsuryō system); state councilor; vice-minister (early Meiji period); Cabinet Councillor (1937-1943); Cabinet Councilor
- —参宮pilgrimage (esp. to the Ise Grand Shrine)
- —参詣visit to a temple or shrine; worship; pilgrimage
- —参向proceeding to
- —参酌comparison and choosing the good; consultation; referring to
- —参集assembling (of people)
- —参政participation in politics; suffrage; voting
- —参禅Zen meditation; meditative consultation with the head abbot
- —参着arrival; payment on sight
- —参朝visiting the palace
- —参殿palace visit
- —参堂visiting a shrine; visiting a home