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
- —三錐歯目Triconodonta; Eutriconodonta; order of early mammals
- —三尊天井head and shoulders (chartist pattern)
- —三角座りsitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)
- —政務三役three highest ranks in a ministry: minister, vice minister and parliamentary secretary
- —三塩基酸tribasic acid
- —三幅一対set of three
- —口先三寸glib tongue; eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
- —三色同順triple run; winning hand containing the same chow in each of the three suits
- —三色同刻triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits
- —第三国人national of a third country; foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan
- —三人遣いthree-person operation of a puppet (bunraku)
- —三枚続きtriptych
- —三人三様each of the three being different from the other two; each of the three having his (her) own way
- —三因仏性three causes of Buddha nature
- —正三角錐triangular pyramid with equilateral base
- —二十三夜23rd night of a lunar month (esp. 8th month); moon-waiting party held on 23rd night of a lunar month
- —三従兄弟second cousin
- —三体問題three-body problem
- —三角行列triangular matrix
- —三辺合計sum of the length, width and height (of a package, etc.)