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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
- —三国人national of a third country; foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean)
- —三悪道the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell
- —三和音triad
- —第三次the third; tertiary
- —三役格referee officiating bouts of san'yaku ranked wrestlers
- —新三役wrestler newly promoted to a san'yaku rank
- —三角竜triceratops (dinosaur)
- —三角槭trident maple (Acer buergerianum)
- —三法印Dharma seals; three marks of existence (suffering, impermanence, non-Self)
- —三分法trichotomy
- —三合会Triad (secret Chinese society usually associated with organized crime)
- —三博士Three Wise Men; Magi
- —三皇后Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort
- —週三回three times a week
- —三節棍three-section staff
- —三部会Estates General; States-General
- —舌三寸eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
- —三倍体triploid (organism, cell, etc.); triplont
- —三大洋three great oceans (Pacific, Atlantic and Indian)
- —三光鳥Japanese paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata)