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
- —お三時afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); afternoon tea
- —胸三寸heart; mind; feelings
- —三羽烏trio; triumvirate; three famous retainers
- —三が日first three days of the New Year (January 1-3)
- —三角巾triangular bandage; sling; triangular kerchief; bandana; bandanna
- —三角琴trigon (ancient triangular harp); sambuca
- —三角筋deltoid (muscle)
- —三角錐triangular pyramid
- —三角波choppy sea; chopping waves; triangle wave
- —三角帆jib sail
- —三角法trigonometry
- —三角帽three-cornered hat; tricorne
- —三脚架tripodal frame
- —三業地licensed red-light quarters
- —三原色three primary colors (colours)
- —三行半three and a half lines
- —三国一unparalleled in Japan, China and India
- —三叉路three-way junction; three-way intersection
- —三尺帯waistband; belt; cloth girdle; obi
- —三十戸thirty houses