Kanji1 / 3
三 kanji
three
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 3
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
サンゾウ
Kun readings
みみつみっつ
Variant forms
弎Words with 三
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —三陸Sanriku (the three former provinces of Rikuzen, Rikuchū and Rikuō)
- —三愛koto, alcohol and poetry; the three loves; the three desires of the realms of existence
- —三徹staying up all night three nights in a row; triple all-nighter
- —三辺three sides (length, width and height)
- —三神the three gods of creation; five-grain guardian gods
- —三献three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups
- —三割thirty percent; 30 percent
- —三戒three lifetime commandments (youth's femininity, middle-aged struggle, old-age gain); three categories of precepts (lay, ordination, moral)
- —三足three legs; tripod; three pairs
- —三従a woman's three obediences (father, husband and son; according to Buddhist and Confucianist teachings)
- —三社three shrines (usu. in ref. to Ise Grand Shrine, Iwashimizu Hachimangū and Kamo Shrine, or Kasuga Grand Shrine); three companies
- —三盗stealing third base
- —三麻three-player mahjong; sanma
- —三戦sanchin; fundamental karate kata focusing on breathing, stability, and body hardening
- —岡三Okasan
- —三共Sankyo (Japanese pharmaceutical company); Sankyō
- —三洋Sanyo; San'you
- —三国Sanseido Kokugo Jiten (Japanese dictionary published by Sanseido) (abbr)
- —三体The Three-Body Problem (2008 novel and subsequent adaptations)
- —三歳three-year-old; three year old