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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
- —三回生third year (college) student; junior
- —三白眼sanpaku eyes (eyes with visible white between the iris and the lower eyelid)
- —三鳥派Sanchō Sect (of the Fuji School of Nichiren Buddhism; 1661-1673)
- —三社祭Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, third weekend of May)
- —三の糸third string (of a shamisen, etc.)
- —三益友three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones
- —三損友three kinds of harmful friends: hypocritical, sycophantic, and glib-talking ones
- —三の鼓hourglass drum used in Nara-period court music
- —三度笠type of traditional Japanese conical hat
- —三箇年triennial
- —三蓬莱the three sacred mountains: Fuji, Atsuta, and Kumano
- —和三盆wasanbon; fine-grained Japanese sugar (traditionally used in wagashi); wagashi sweets made from wasanbon
- —唐三盆high-grade white sugar imported from China
- —十三仏the thirteen buddhas, bodhisattvas and wisdom kings
- —三枚肉boneless rib (esp. of pork or beef); boned rib
- —三昧耶time; meeting; coming together; equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas)
- —長三度major third
- —短三度minor third
- —三の丸outermost region of the castle
- —三月尽last day of March; last day of the third lunar month (marking the end of spring)