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
- —一都三県one metropolis and three prefectures (i.e. the Tokyo area: Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama)
- —三角頭巾triangle headband; triangular scarf
- —白山三峰Three Peaks of Mount Haku (Gozengamine, Kengamine, Oonanjimine)
- —三者三振striking out three consecutive batters
- —三帝同盟League of the Three Emperors (1873-1887)
- —三大欲求the three great desires (sleep, food and sex)
- —三社参りvisiting three shrines in the beginning of the year
- —空き三角empty triangle; "L"-shaped formation of three stones (considered bad shape)
- —三出複葉ternate compound leaf
- —三段活用trigrade conjugation (of the classical verbs "su" and "ku"); conjugation in which the stem vowel alternates between "i", "u" and "o"
- —三権の長heads of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government
- —三間トビthree-space jump; three-point jump
- —第三者委independent committee; third-party panel
- —三文芝居cheap and low-quality play; performance not worth paying to see; transparent act; see-through scheming
- —三角食べtriangle eating; eating a meal (especially school lunches) by rotating between the staple food, main dish, and soup in order
- —三重陽子triton (nucleus of tritium)
- —第三紀層tertiary layer; tertiary formation
- —戯作三昧Absorbed in Letters (novel by Akutagawa)
- —三京化成Sankyokasei Corporation
- —三洋信販Sanyo Shinpan (consumer loan firm)