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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
- —三世因果retribution spanning the three temporal worlds (present, past, future)
- —三番勝負three-game match; three-bout contest; a rubber (in a card game)
- —三本勝負a set of three bouts; three-game match; three-bout contest
- —三文役者third-rate actor
- —舌先三分a glib tongue (with fair words); fluent talk designed to deceive; talk something away
- —自由三昧free; unfettered; according to one's own whims; doing as one likes
- —垂涎三尺avid desire; drooling over (something); watering at the mouth
- —読書三到using mind, mouth and eyes to understand a book fully
- —読書三余winter, night, and rainy weather; the ideal conditions for reading
- —南無三宝Homage to the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha); oh no!; good heavens!; oops
- —二重三重twofold and threefold; doubled and redoubled
- —二転三転changing again and again; seesawing back and forth; being in a state of flux
- —胸先三寸one's mind; one's inner feelings; (a decision hinging on) how someone feels about it
- —六韜三略The Six Secret Teachings and The Three Strategies of Huang Shigong (two ancient Chinese military treatises); secrets (of the art of war, etc.); mysteries
- —三猿主義the principle of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not"
- —三割自治the "thirty-percent autonomy" of local governments
- —三者三様everybody is different; to each their own; three different people, three different styles
- —三無主義the "three noes principle" of no drive, no interest, and no sense of responsibility; principle of indolence, indifference, and irresponsibility
- —七公三民land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent
- —三徳包丁all-purpose kitchen knife; santoku knife