The kanji 参: meaning, readings and stroke order
参
- Meaning
- join, visit
- On reading
- サン san
- Kun reading
- まい(る) mairu
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 厶 private
- Level
- Level 4 · grade 4
- Old form
- 參
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- tham gia, đi viếng (tham)
- Japanese
- くわわる。おまいりに いく。
- Korean
- 참가하다, 참배하다 (삼·참)
- Chinese
- 参加、参拜
Readings, words and example sentences
サン san · on reading
参考
something to learn from, reference
この 本を 参考に します。
I use this book to help me.
まい(る) mairu · kun reading · less common
参る
to go (polite word); to visit a shrine to pray
正月に 神社に 参ります。
At New Year, I go to the shrine to pray.
Practise writing 参 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 参 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 4 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.