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
- —三時のお八つafternoon refreshment; afternoon tea
- —三拍子そろうto meet all three important conditions; to be a triple threat; to be ideal
- —三路スイッチtwo-way switch (UK); three-way switch (US)
- —悪魔の三歳児threenager; child in the terrifying threes
- —三匹の子ぶたThe Three Little Pigs (fable)
- —三匹の子ブタThe Three Little Pigs (fable)
- —三匹のコブタThe Three Little Pigs (fable)
- —ベスト三十二last 32 (in a tournament); round of 32
- —第三次中東戦争Third Arab-Israeli War (June 5-10, 1967); Six-Day War
- —三次元プリンタ3D printer
- —三ヶ月コリックbaby colic (in infants around 3 months old)
- —三箇月コリックbaby colic (in infants around 3 months old)
- —女三界に家無し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)
- —失われた三十年lost thirty years; lost decades; period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991
- —アデノシン三燐酸adenosine triphosphate; ATP
- —グアノシン三燐酸guanosine triphosphate; GTP
- —早起きは三文の得the early bird gets the worm
- —セシウム百三十七cesium-137; caesium-137
- —女は三界に家無し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)
- —女三人よれば姦しいthree women make a market; many women, many words; three women gathering creates a racket