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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
- —三箱three boxes; three box-shaped things; three containers
- —三因three causes of Buddha nature
- —三惑three mental disturbances
- —三一low-ranking samurai; rolling three and one (in a dice game)
- —三山three mountains; three shrines (of Kumano); three kingdoms (of 14th and 15th-century Okinawa)
- —三線shamisen; samisen; three-stringed Japanese lute
- —三八three and eight; Arisaka Type 38 rifle
- —三段third stage; three stages; third dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)
- —三々3-3 point
- —三都three large cities (esp. Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka during the Edo period)
- —三傑three great people (e.g. of the Meiji Restoration)
- —三元15th day of the 1st, 7th and 10th lunar months; heaven, earth and man; January 1; New Year's Day; ternary
- —三流three banishment punishments (of different severity; under ritsuryō system)
- —お三kitchen maid; kitchen duties; cooking
- —三糖trisaccharide
- —三姫the three princesses; three kabuki roles regarded as some of the hardest to perform
- —三厭red meat, bird and fish flesh; three disagreeable things
- —三天the three deities (Marici, Mahakala, Sarasvati); the three celestials (Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma)
- —三越San'etsu (the three former provinces of Echizen, Etchū and Echigo)
- —三備Sanbi (the three former provinces of Bizen, Bitchū and Bingo)