Taxonomy of meanings for 參:　　

  • 參 cān (OC: tshuum MC: tsʰəm) 倉含切 平 廣韻：【參承參覲也俗作叅倉含切五 】
    • CHECK
      • nabactinvestigation; test
      • vadNcross-checked 不參之事
      • vt[oN]carry out double checks, carry out a cross-check; check the facts of things
      • vtoNcross-check, investigate (especially through comparisons), check against the facts; check against each other
      • comprehensive> INVESTIGATE
        • object superiors> VISIT
          • nabvisit to a superior (who gives lecture, etc.)
          • viactto come for a visit; to visit; BUDDH: to visit in order to receive instruction
          • vt(oN)omvisit a contextually determinate superior
          • vt+V[0]visit to V
          • vtoNvisit a superior
          • social> JOIN
            • vtoNparticipate in; join in with
            • competitive> EQUAL
              • vtoNreach the same levelCH
              • vt(oN1.)+prep+N2equal the contextually determinate N1 with N2LZ
              • npartner, peerLZ
            • active> SUPPORT
              • vtoNsupport, cooperate withCH
              • vtoNassist with (a task)CH
              • vtoNpassivebe assisted in the task NCH
    • 參 càn (OC: tshuums MC: tsʰəm) 七紺切 去 廣韻：【參鼓俗作參 】
      • three-beat drum tune ("drum walse"> TUNE
      • 參 cēn (OC: tshrum MC: tʂʰɯim) 楚簪切 平 廣韻：【同嵾 】
      • UNEVEN
        • 參 sān (OC: saam MC: sɑm) 蘇甘切 平 廣韻：【同三又七南所今二切俗作叄 】
          • THREE
            • vadVa trois; as three participants, with three participants
            • vt+prep+Nto constitute a triad with NLZ
          • =三
          • 參 shēn (OC: srum MC: ʃɯim) 所今切 平 廣韻：【參星亦姓丗本云祝融之後又蒼含切 】
            • STAR
              • nOrion
            • ginseng> MEDICINE
              • CONFUCIANS
                • nprthe given name of Zeng1zi3 曾子LZ
                • nadN[Zeng] Shen'sDS

              Additional information about 參

              說文解字:

                Criteria
              • VISIT

                1. The most current general word for paying a visit is jiàn 見.

                2. Yè 謁 refers to any formal visit, private or official.

                3. Pìn 聘 refers to a formal and official visit on behalf of some political authority.

                4. Wèn 問 refers to a visit to a sick person or to the bereaved.

                5. Cháo 朝 refers to a formal visit or general attendance at court.

                6. Guō 過 refers to informal visit en passant.

                7. Cān 參 refers to a visit to a superior.

              • CHECK

                1. The current standard word for cross-checking and veryfying a statement is cān 參 which refers to the cross-checking of a public statement against the realities it claims to refer to.

                2. Yàn 驗 and zhēng 徵 refer to an attempt to find specific good evidence (often historical evidence) for something.

                3. Hé 覈 refers to checking out the real facts of a case someone is making.

              • MOUTH ORGAN

                1. The most current word for an upright pipe organ is yú 竽, which refers to an organ with 36 bamboo pipes arranged tightly together on a gourd. See ill..

                2. Shēng 笙 refers to smaller variety of the upright yú 竽 with between 13 and 19 pipes.

                3. Xiāo 簫 refers to a system of 32 pipes arranged on one plane. A smaller variety had 16 pipes so arranged. It was played in the manner of the modern mouth organ. It is also called cēn cī 參差.

              • THREE

                1. The general word for "three"is sān 三 and this word has great syntactic flexibility, and only in a small minority of such usages can the graph be replaced by 參.

                2. Sān 參 is to form a triad, and the graph is not replaceable by sān 三.

                Word relations
              • Result: (CHECK)驗/PROVE The current general word for, often decisive, proof or evidence is yàn 驗, but the word does not refer to a discursive elabarate logical proof as one might expect to find in the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition.
              • Contrast: (CHECK)考 / 考/INVESTIGATE Kǎo 考 and jī 稽 refer to an objective investigation into something on the basis of the best available evidence.
              • Assoc: (CHECK)觀/INVESTIGATE