Kanji1 / 8
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
- —参内palace visit
- —参洛going to the capital
- —参籠retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer
- —新参newcomer; tyro
- —代参visiting a temple for another
- —直参immediate follower (of the shogun)
- —不参absence; nonattendance; nonappearance
- —仏参visit to a Buddhist temple
- —遅参late attendance; lateness; tardiness
- —日参daily visit to a temple or shrine (to worship); visiting frequently; visiting daily
- —帰参returning; coming back; returning to the service of one's master
- —推参paying an unannounced visit; rudeness
- —学参study reference; study-aid book
- —独参private interview with a Zen Master
- —予参act of joining a crowd or assembly of people; attendance
- —初参being in someone's service for the first time; participating for the first time; visiting a shrine (or temple) for the first time
- —初参meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant); ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master
- —参勤going to serve one's lord; daimyo's alternating Edo residence; official attendance service (by a daimyo in the Edo period)
- —参命imperial army order
- —衆参House of Representatives and House of Councillors; both houses of the Diet