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
- —三角ベースbaseball played without a second base (children's game)
- —維新の三傑three great nobles of the Restoration; three statesmen (Okubo Toshimichi, Saigo Takamori and Kido Takayoshi) who played an important role during the Meiji Restoration
- —夏の大三角Summer Triangle (asterism)
- —冬の大三角Winter Triangle (asterism)
- —春の大三角Spring Triangle (asterism)
- —空振り三振strikeout; (several) vain attempts; failing despite giving one's best
- —バルト三国(the three) Baltic states; Baltic countries
- —三里塚闘争Sanrizuka Struggle; campaign against the construction of Narita airport
- —三枚ガルタthree-card betting game (e.g. oicho-kabu)
- —三十六歌仙the thirty-six immortal poets (of the Heian period; as named by Fujiwara no Kintō)
- —三人称複数third-person plural
- —三次方程式cubic equation
- —六三三四制six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)
- —下腿三頭筋musculus triceps surae; triceps muscle of the calf
- —白髪三千丈many years of stress and anxiety (as would cause one's hair to grow white); three-thousand jō of white hair (nine kilometers)
- —三興製作所Sanko Engineering Corporation
- —三甲美術館Sanko Museum
- —三国志演義Romance of the Three Kingdoms (14th century novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong)
- —ルパン三世Lupin III (manga, anime, character by Monkey Punch); Lupin the Third
- —捜査第三課Third Investigation Division (of the Japanese police); division responsible for investigating theft, burglary, shoplifting, etc.