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
- —三星グループSamsung Group
- —第三世代大学The University of the Third Age (U3A)
- —直木三十五賞Naoki Prize (literary award)
- —富嶽三十六景Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai)
- —和漢三才図会Illustrated Sino-Japanese Encyclopedia (1712)
- —三育学院大学Saniku Gakuin College
- —三匹のこぶたThe Three Little Pigs (fable)
- —三一独立運動March First Movement (1919 Korean anti-Japanese independence movement); Samil Movement
- —目を三角にするto look daggers at someone; to be angry
- —東海道五十三次fifty-three stations on the Tōkaidō (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
- —三軸圧縮試験機triaxial compression apparatus
- —第三者割当増資third-party allocation of shares
- —三環系抗うつ剤tricyclic antidepressant
- —三環系抗うつ薬tricyclic antidepressant
- —石の上にも三年perseverance prevails; three years on a (cold) stone (will make the stone warm)
- —桃栗三年柿八年it often takes time for one's actions to bear fruit; planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight
- —ヨハネの手紙三Third Epistle of John (book of the Bible)
- —定言的三段論法categorical syllogism
- —仮言的三段論法hypothetical syllogism
- —選言的三段論法disjunctive syllogism