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
- —三斎流Sansai school of tea ceremony
- —三セクjoint venture of government and business; business venture financed jointly by the public and private sectors; semi-public sector
- —三男坊third son
- —三隣亡unlucky day for starting construction of a house (which would result in a fire that spreads to three adjacent houses)
- —三べんthree times
- —三叉戟trident
- —三叉槍trident
- —三動弁triple valve; three-state valve
- —三角江estuary
- —第三極third force (e.g. in politics); third pole; Third Pole (i.e. the Hindu Kush Himalayan region)
- —南無三oh no!; good heavens!; oops
- —歩三兵starting with only a king on the board and three pawns in hand (as a handicap when teaching a beginner)
- —三重丸three concentric circles; triple circle
- —三行脈trinerbate venation (of a leaf); trinerve
- —三角骨triquetral bone
- —三読会third reading (of a bill in the Imperial Diet)
- —三コウtriple ko
- —三英傑The Three Unifiers (Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu)
- —三審制three-tiered court system; principle of a three-instance trial process
- —三方錐trigonal pyramid