(cān) - to take part, to join (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
cānTraditional: 参
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Translation
to take part, to join (bound morpheme)
Word origin
The simplified form of 參, whose old graph showed sparkling stars above a kneeling figure. The bound morpheme means to take part or join and appears most often in 参加 (cānjiā), to participate.
- Origin
- pictographic
- Root
- 参 (cān), simplified from 參, originally stars over a person
Stroke order
参
Examples
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Are you attending this meeting?
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He took part in the competition.
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Please join our party.
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He has been in the army for five years.
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Please everyone take part in the discussion.
参 (cān) means to take part or to join. It is a bound morpheme and most often appears in 参加 (cān jiā), to participate.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 参.
Used in
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