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
- —三人称単数現在third person singular present
- —帯状連結三角形triangle strip
- —第三次世界大戦World War III; Third World War
- —子は三界の首枷a child is an everlasting responsibility
- —武器輸出三原則Three Principles on arms exports
- —孟母三遷の教えthe importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning
- —目が三角になるto look daggers at someone
- —熱力学第三法則third law of thermodynamics
- —三十にして立つturning thirty and therefore becoming independent; at thirty, one stands on one's own
- —ロボット三原則(Asimov's) Three Laws of Robotics
- —女三界に家なしa woman has no home of her own in this world (because she has to obey her parents when she is young, her husband when she gets married, and her children when she is old)
- —向こう三軒両隣one's nearest neighbors; houses in one's immediate neighborhood; the three houses across the street and the two houses on either side of one's house
- —三和総合研究所SRIC Corporation; Sanwa Research Institute Corporation
- —三省堂国語辞典Sanseido Kokugo Jiten (Japanese dictionary published by Sanseido)
- —パスカルの三角形Pascal's triangle
- —早起きは三文の徳the early bird gets the worm
- —三度の飯より好きvery fond of; more fond of than eating; so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without; more important than three meals a day
- —熱力学の第三法則third law of thermodynamics
- —女三人寄れば姦しthree women make a market
- —朝起きは三文の徳the early bird catches the worm