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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
- —三遍回って煙草にしょmeasure twice and cut once; don't slack off until the job's done properly; go around three times before you take a smoke
- —二風も三風も変わったvery eccentric; thoroughly unconventional; quite out of the ordinary
- —岡三ホールディングスOkasan Holdings
- —二度あることは三度あるwhat happens twice will happen thrice
- —第三インターナショナルThird International; Communist International
- —第三者のためにする契約third party beneficiary contract
- —三尺去って師の影を踏まずa student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
- —三人行けば必ず我が師有りsomething can be learned from anyone; if three walk together, I'll have a teacher
- —居候三杯目にはそっと出しthe non-paying lodger asks for a third helping of rice with much hesitation
- —三尺下がって師の影を踏まずa student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
- —三歩下がって師の影を踏まずa student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
- —二人は伴侶、三人は仲間割れtwo is a company, three is a crowd; one companion is better than two
- —三士recruit (former rank in the JSDF)
- —三馬Pacific saury (Cololabis saira); mackerel pike
- —単三AA battery; AA cell
- —三軽three famous beauty spots
- —三絃shamisen; samisen; sanxian (Chinese lute); the three string instruments used in gagaku (biwa, wagon and sou); three strings; three-stringed instrument
- —三歎deep admiration; repeatedly lamenting
- —三分three minutes
- —三竦three-way deadlock