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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
- —三又路three-way junction; three-way intersection
- —三次元three dimensions; 3D; 3-D; real world; IRL; in real life
- —三色菫pansy (Viola tricolor var. hortensis); garden pansy; wild pansy (Viola tricolor); heartsease
- —三角洲(river) delta
- —三段跳triple jump; hop, step and jump
- —三番鳥third cockcrowing
- —ご三家three branches of the Tokugawa family (Owari, Kii and Mito); big three; top three
- —三角座Triangulum (constellation); the Triangle
- —三盃酢vinegar, soy sauce and mirin (or sugar) mixed in roughly equal proportions
- —三竦みthree-way deadlock
- —三カ年triennial
- —三か年triennial
- —三摩耶time; meeting; coming together; equality, warning, or riddance of hindrances (esp. in esoteric Buddhism as vows of the buddhas and bodhisattvas)
- —三年生third-year student; third-year pupil
- —バリ三full signal strength (on a cellphone); good cellphone reception; three bars
- —ご三卿three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi)
- —三人婚three-way sexual relationship; three-person marriage; ménage à trois; three-person domestic partnership
- —三連休three-day weekend; long weekend; three holidays in a row
- —三題咄performing a rakugo story on the spot based on three topics given by the audience; impromptu rakugo story based on three subjects
- —三枚続triptych