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
- —三十二分音符32nd note; demisemiquaver
- —二等辺三角形isosceles triangle
- —仏の顔も三度even the patience of a saint eventually runs out; (if you touch) the Buddha's face three times (he will get annoyed)
- —駆けつけ三杯three cups of sake which latecomers to a party are made to drink
- —三舎を避けるto keep one's distance from someone (due to fear or because that person is superior)
- —第三種郵便物third-class mail
- —三軸圧縮試験triaxial compression test
- —これより三役final three bouts on the last day of a tournament
- —三役揃い踏みritual stomping in unison on the final day of a tournament
- —第三のビールcheap, malt-free beer-like alcoholic beverage
- —不等辺三角形scalene (triangle)
- —三度目の正直third time lucky; third time's the charm
- —三人称代名詞third-person pronoun
- —三酸化クロムchromic anhydride (CrO3)
- —西国三十三所thirty-three temples in the Kinki area containing statues of Kannon (Avalokitesvara)
- —三平方の定理Pythagorean theorem
- —日本三代実録Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
- —三次の多項式third order polynomial
- —三者通話機能three way calling
- —三角縁神獣鏡ancient triangular-rimmed mirror decorated with gods and animals