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
- —小三元little three dragons; winning hand that contains two pungs or kongs of dragons and a pair of the third dragon
- —三枚絵triptych
- —第三趾middle toe
- —三一致règle des trois unités; the three unities (time, place and action)
- —三論宗Sanron sect (of Buddhism)
- —三段腹potbelly; beer belly
- —お三方three people
- —三全音tritone
- —三四日three or four days
- —二三日two or three days
- —三糖類trisaccharides
- —十三月January; 13th month
- —三周忌second anniversary of a death
- —三善根three wholesome roots (no coveting, no anger, no delusion)
- —三戦神the three guardian deities in time of war (Marici, Mahakala and Vaisravana)
- —三次会after-afterparty; third party of the night
- —立三本three-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand) of the April, May, July, or December suit
- —三時業karmic retribution through the past, present, and future; three types of karma
- —三刀流wielding three swords; player who can play as pitcher, fielder and batter
- —三千家the three Senke schools of tea ceremony (Omotesenke, Urasenke, and Mushakōjisenke)