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
- —三軍great army; mighty host; whole army
- —三桁three-digit number; hundreds column
- —三股forked stick
- —三更third watch of the night (approx. 11pm to 1am)
- —三校third proof
- —三国three countries; Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE); Japan, China and India; Japan, Korea and China; the whole world
- —三佐major (JGSDF)
- —三才the three powers (heaven, earth and man); everything in the universe
- —三災the three calamities: fire, flood and storm
- —三思deep reflection
- —三死three outs
- —三尺3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
- —三秋three autumn months; three fall months; three years
- —三重triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate
- —三春three spring months
- —三助male bathhouse attendant
- —三唱three cheers; three chants; singing three times
- —三乗cube; third power
- —三色three colours; three colors; triple run; winning hand containing the same chow in each of the three suits; triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits
- —三食three meals (a day)