U+53C3 "參" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
參
U+53C3 "參" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji character that primarily means "to participate," "to join," "to refer," or "three" in certain contexts, and is also used as a variant of the numeral "3" in financial and formal writing to prevent forgery. This multifaceted character appears in classical texts and modern usage, often carrying connotations of consultation or comparison, as seen in compounds like "参考" (reference) and "参加" (participation). Its structure incorporates elements from the radicals for "large" or "big" and "hair" or "mane," reflecting its historical evolution from earlier script forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+53C3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 參 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 參 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x8F 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x53C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000053C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u53c3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kAccountingNumeric | 3 |
| kBigFive | B0D1 |
| kCCCII | 21347D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5936 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5936 |
| kCangjie | IIIH |
| kCantonese | caam1 |
| kCihaiT | 232.405 |
| kCowles | 3824 4683 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0372.280 |
| kDefinition | take part in, intervene; ginseng |
| kEACC | 21347D |
| kFanqie | 所今 楚簪 倉含 蘇甘 七紺 |
| kFenn | 282F |
| kFennIndex | 444.03 542.08 550.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2320.2 |
| kGB1 | 1846 |
| kGSR | 0647a |
| kHangul | 삼:0N 참:0E |
| kHanYu | 10387.230 |
| kHanyuPinlu | cān(525) shēn(25) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10387.230:shēn,sān,cān,cēn,càn,sǎn |
| kHKGlyph | 0461 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0372.280 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10387.230 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0164.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-324E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0D1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5254 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-ECD2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7351 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5936 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E28 |
| kJapanese | サン シン まいる |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | MAIRU |
| kJapaneseOn | SAN |
| kJis0 | 5052 |
| kKangXi | 0164.280 |
| kKorean | CHAM SAM |
| kLau | 174 204 2645 |
| kMandarin | cān |
| kMatthews | 6685 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2620 3228 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ007982 |
| kMorohashi | 03098 |
| kNelson | 0850 0854 |
| kPhonetic | 23 1101 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4329+28.2.9 C+4329+59.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 28.9 |
| kSBGY | 220.18 220.41 221.23 224.13 442.17 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+53C5<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "参" U+53C2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 82.15 211.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cān粵caam1 shēn粵sam1 cén粵cam1,caam1 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+53C5<kFenn U+8593<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0639 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tham |
| kXerox | 243:301 |
| kXHC1983 | 0102.041:cān 0110.051:cēn 1018.011:shēn |