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
- —三伸second postscript
- —三寸three sun (ca. 9.1 cm); something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun); stall-keeper; huckster; hawker; prostitute of the lowest rank
- —三世three generations; third generation immigrant; sansei; the third (e.g. Henry III)
- —三世three temporal states of existence; past, present and future; three generations
- —三曹sergeant (JGSDF)
- —三相three phases
- —三体the three character styles: square and semicursive and grass
- —三直out on a third-base liner
- —三冬three winter months
- —三等third class
- —三徳three cardinal virtues (wisdom, benevolence and valour (valor)); (having) three uses (e.g. a kitchen knife); (having) three advantages (e.g. a method); three qualities of nirvana (dharmakaya, prajna and moksha); three qualities of parinirvana; three virtues of Buddhahood (benevolence, wisdom and renunciation of klesha); three virtues of Buddhistic enlightenment; small pouch with separate pockets for a handkerchief, notes and toothpicks (popular during the Edo period)
- —三拝adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly; act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly
- —三倍three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold
- —三番third; no. three
- —三筆the three famous ancient calligraphers (Emperor Saga, Tachibana (no) Hayanari and Kooboo Daishi)
- —三府the three urban prefectures (Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka)
- —三封forced out on third
- —三分trisection; dividing into three (parts)
- —三文paltry amount of money; cheapness; worthlessness; three one-mon coins
- —三昧samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); being immersed in; being absorbed in; indulging in; doing to one's heart's content; prone to; apt to