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
- —三部経three main sutras (of a school of Buddhism)
- —三角貝trigoniid (any clam of family Trigoniidae)
- —三盆白traditional high-grade white sugar
- —三尖弁tricuspid valve
- —三温糖dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process; brown sugar
- —三量体trimer
- —御三卿three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi)
- —三平汁soup made with salted or rice-bran-pickled fish, vegetables, and sometimes sake lees (Hokkaido local specialty dish)
- —三振法three strikes law (US)
- —三名山Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
- —三霊山Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)
- —三宝柑sanbokan sour orange (Citrus sulcata)
- —三の松furthest pine tree from a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)
- —三単現third person singular present
- —三度豆common bean; snow pea; mangetout
- —三角部pars triangularis; triangular area; triangular part of inferior frontal gyrus
- —三題噺performing a rakugo story on the spot based on three topics given by the audience; impromptu rakugo story based on three subjects
- —三遊間the hole (between third and short); area between the third baseman and shortstop
- —三美神three Graces; Charites
- —大三元big three dragons; winning hand consisting of pungs or kongs of each of the three types of dragon tiles