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
- —三重母音triphthong
- —三代実録Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
- —三皇五帝Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)
- —三目並べtic-tac-toe; noughts and crosses
- —三人乗りthree people on the same vehicle (usu. bike)
- —三世諸仏all Buddhas of past, present and future
- —三重結合triple bond
- —一心三観simultaneous contemplation of the threefold truth (form of Tendai meditation)
- —三十番神the thirty guardian deities (one for each day of the lunar month)
- —七三分けside parting; hair parted to one side
- —三月革命March Revolution (Austria and Germany, 1848); February Revolution (Russia, 1917)
- —三角帽子three-cornered hat; tricorne
- —三族の罪crime for which one's three types of relatives will be punished; crime implicating one's relatives of all three types
- —三審制度three-tiered court system; principle of a three-instance trial process
- —三世十方limitless time and space
- —三段落ちthree-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.); rule of three (in comedy writing)
- —三分の二two thirds
- —三度三度three times a day (of meals)
- —大和三山Three Mountains of Yamato (Mt. Miminashi, Mt. Kagu, and Mt. Unebi)
- —三度入りmedium-sized earthenware sake cup