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
- —三業three activities (action, speech and thought)
- —三大the big three ...
- —三鳥chicken, goose and pheasant; cuckoo, Japanese bush warbler and wagtail
- —三尸the three worms (in Taoism); worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings
- —三態the three phases of matter: solid, liquid and gas
- —三強top three
- —三酸triacid
- —三碧third of nine traditional astrological signs (corresponding to Jupiter and east)
- —昼三highest ranking prostitute in Edo's Yoshiwara red-light district (from the Hōreki era onward)
- —三族three types of relatives (e.g. father, children and grandchildren; parents, siblings, wife and children; etc.)
- —三盆traditional high-grade white sugar
- —三遷thrice moving from house to house; the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning
- —三家three noble families (Kan'in, Kazan'in and Nakanoin or Koga); three branches of the Tokugawa family (Owari, Kii and Mito)
- —三卿three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi)
- —三悪the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals; three evil worlds hell; three evils (prostitution, drugs and venereal diseases)
- —三明three kinds of awareness
- —三鈷trident vajra
- —三方three people; day laborer (e.g. in construction); day labourer
- —三尊Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas; The Three Jewels; Buddha, the teachings of Buddha, and the community of monks and nuns; head and shoulders (stock price, etc. chart pattern); the three people one must esteem: master, father, teacher
- —三学threefold training; three divisions of the noble eightfold path