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
- —御三方three people
- —単三型AA size (battery)
- —三角缶triangular tin; triangular can
- —バツ三being thrice divorced; three-time divorcee; three x marks (i.e. three names struck from the family register)
- —第三波third wave
- —三十代(one's) 30s; thirties
- —第三Qthird quarter (of a year)
- —三輪宝unlucky day for starting construction of a house (which would result in a fire that spreads to three adjacent houses)
- —三十分thirty minutes; half an hour
- —十三時1 PM
- —三ケツriding triple (on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.)
- —三角函数trigonometric function
- —三角すいtriangular pyramid
- —3球三振three-pitch strikeout
- —三顧之礼showing (someone) special courtesy (to persuade them to take a post)
- —三文々士hack writer; pulp-writer; penny-a-liner; scribbler
- —三三九度three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups
- —三々五々in groups of twos and threes; in small groups; (in groups of) threes and fives
- —二足三文dirt cheap; very cheap
- —三脚イスthree-legged stool