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
- —刃物三昧swinging a knife around; brandishing a knife
- —日本三景Japan's three famous sights (Matsushima, Miyajima and Ama-no-Hashidate)
- —第三人称third person
- —第三世界Third World
- —第三帝国the Third Reich; Nazi Germany
- —第三階級the third estate; the bourgeoisie
- —第三勢力a third force
- —舌先三寸eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
- —贅沢三昧indulging in every possible luxury
- —三叉神経trigeminal nerve
- —三民主義(Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People
- —三角貿易trilateral trade
- —三すくみthree-way deadlock
- —三岐代表representative of Gifu and Mie prefectures
- —大砲三門three cannons
- —三軸試験triaxial test
- —奪三振王strikeout leader (in a given season); strikeout king
- —三分の一one third; a third part
- —三本立てtriple feature (e.g. movie)
- —第三政党third party