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
- —万歳三唱three cheers
- —三光作戦Three Alls Strategy (Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War)
- —三韓征伐conquest of the three Koreas (legendary military invasion of the Korean kingdoms; 3rd century CE)
- —三韓出兵conquest of the three Koreas (legendary military invasion of the Korean kingdoms; 3rd century CE)
- —釈迦三尊Shakyamuni triad; Gautama triad; image of Shakyamuni (Gautama) Buddha flanked by two attendants
- —三者面談parent and child meeting (with teacher for course, career guidance, etc.)
- —張三李四the common run of men; the average Joe; good-for-nothing (person)
- —宮中三殿the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace
- —三角木馬wooden horse (used in S&M play or torture)
- —三種混合combined vaccination for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus
- —三大疾病three major diseases (cancer, cerebral stroke, acute myocardial infarction)
- —三王礼拝Adoration of the Magi
- —三重水素tritium
- —三七人参notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng)
- —三化螟蛾yellow stem borer (species of moth, Scirpophaga incertulas)
- —三国時代Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms period (of Korean history, 57 BCE-668 CE)
- —三門徒派Sanmonto sect (of Shin Buddhism)
- —三国干渉Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki)
- —労働三法the three major labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, and labor relations adjustment law)
- —三宝荒神guardian deity of the three jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha); three-person saddle