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
- —三本足three legs (two legs and a cane)
- —三枚目comedian; actor who plays comic roles; figure of fun; laughing stock
- —三幕物three-act play
- —三面鏡three-sided mirror
- —三毛作three crops a year
- —三葉虫trilobite
- —三稜鏡prism
- —三輪車three wheeled vehicle (tricycle, motorcycle, etc.); three wheeler
- —三塁線third-base line
- —十三夜13th day (of the moon); the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month
- —両三日two or three days
- —六三制six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)
- —三角州(river) delta
- —三番鶏third cockcrowing
- —御三家three branches of the Tokugawa family (Owari, Kii and Mito); big three; top three
- —三頭筋triceps
- —三親等third degree of kinship
- —三等星third magnitude star
- —第三紀Tertiary period
- —三下奴petty underling; small fry