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JLPT N5 SL1 3 strokes Frequency: #13

Meanings

three

Radicals

Decomposition

⿱一二

Etymology

Ideographic: Three  parallel lines; compare 一 (one) and 二 (two)

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 3

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
2 horizontal bottom-to-top
3 horizontal bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
サン san

Used in compound words

ゾウ zou
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
mi

Standalone, with つ or っ suffix

みっ mi

Words Using This Kanji

829 words total
Other (20 words)
三量体 さんりょうたい

trimer

三悪 さんあく

the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals

三家 さんけ

three noble families (Kan'in, Kazan'in and Nakanoin or Koga)

三河万歳 みかわまんざい

Mikawa manzai

三平汁 さんぺいじる

soup made with salted or rice-bran-pickled fish, vegetables, and sometimes sake lees (Hokkaido local specialty dish)

三振法 さんしんほう

three strikes law (US)

三名山 さんめいざん

Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

日本三名山 にほんさんめいざん

Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

日本三霊山 にほんさんれいざん

Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

三霊山 さんれいざん

Japan's Three Holy Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku)

三審制度 さんしんせいど

three-tiered court system

三世十方 さんぜじっぽう

limitless time and space

第三セクター だいさんセクター

joint venture of government and business

三の松 さんのまつ

furthest pine tree from a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway)

三つ葉のクローバー みつばのクローバー

three-leaf clover

三段落ち さんだんおち

three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.)

三葉芹 みつばぜり

mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica)

三単現 さんたんげん

third person singular present

三つ熊 みつぐま

mother bear with two cubs

三分の二 さんぶんのに

two thirds