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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
- —三鼓the three types of gagaku drums; third division of the night (approx. 11pm to 1am)
- —三線sanshin; Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument; precursor to the shamisen
- —三混combined vaccination for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus
- —三水kanji "water" radical (radical 85); corruption; graft; alcohol; sake
- —三后Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort
- —三宮Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort
- —三毒the three kleshas that poison the heart of man (desire, ill will and ignorance)
- —三聖three enlightened men (Buddha, Confucius and Christ; Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha; etc.); three sages; three virtuous men; the three most accomplished people (of a particular craft or trade)
- —三身trikaya (three bodies of the Buddha)
- —三易three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)
- —三舎three days' march (approx. 36.5 km)
- —三諦threefold truth (all things are void; all things are temporary; all things are in the middle state between these two) (in Tendai)
- —三綱three monastic positions with management roles at a temple
- —三綱three bonds (in Confucianism: master and servant, father and son, husband and wife)
- —三革armor, helmet and shield (armour); kakurei, kakuun and kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to Onmyōdō)
- —三焦san jiao (triple heater; functional metabolic organ in Chinese medicine)
- —三光the Sun, the Moon and the stars; three 20-point cards (high-scoring meld)
- —三省three ministries (under the ritsuryō system: Ministries of Civil Services, Health and War); three departments (in Tang dynasty China: Secretariat, Chancellory and Dept. of State Affairs)
- —三公three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)
- —三礼adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly; act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly