The Chinese Radical: 参


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participate    参

Explanation Originally this was the image of a kneeling woman 女 = くノ 一 with long hair 彡 (possibly with hairpins 八 ?), with the meaning: beautiful.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
attend, participate, join, irregular
cān, shēn, cēn
From top: nose 厶 (a nose in side view), big 大, hairy 彡 (Originally this was the image of a kneeling woman 女 = くノ一 with long hair 彡 (possibly with hairpins 八 ?), with the meaning: beautiful)
Where the kneeling woman 厶 with the big hair is, I would like to participate.  
JLPT HSK 6
miserable, wretched, cruel, inhuman, tragic
cǎn
Left: feeling 忄, right: to participate 参 (Where the simplified woman 厶 with the big 大 hair 彡 is, I like to participate.)
The feeling that my nose is big and hairy makes me miserable.  
JLPT HSK 6
to seep, infiltrate, permeate, to horrify
shèn
Left: water 氵, right: participate 参 (Where the simplified woman 厶 with the big 大 hair 彡 is, I like to participate.)
If water participates, it seeped in.  
JLPT no HSK
to mix, to blend, to grasp
chān, shǎn
Left: hand 扌, right: participate 参 (Where the simplified woman 厶 with the big 大 hair 彡 is, I like to participate.)
A hand that participates is: mixing.  

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