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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)
三度三度 さんどさんど

three times a day (of meals)

三度三度 さんどさんど

three times a day (of meals)

目が三角になる めがさんかくになる

to look daggers at someone

大和三山 やまとさんざん

Three Mountains of Yamato (Mt. Miminashi, Mt. Kagu, and Mt. Unebi)

三明 さんみょう

three kinds of awareness

ルーローの三角形 ルーローのさんかくけい

Reuleaux triangle

三度入り さんどいり

medium-sized earthenware sake cup

三度豆 さんどまめ

common bean

第三者委員会 だいさんしゃいいんかい

independent committee

三千大千世界 さんぜんだいせんせかい

the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened

三尊天井 さんぞんてんじょう

head and shoulders (chartist pattern)

三尊 さんぞん

Buddha triad

三角部 さんかくぶ

pars triangularis

政務三役 せいむさんやく

three highest ranks in a ministry: minister, vice minister and parliamentary secretary

三角座り さんかくずわり

sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)

三帯アルマジロ みつおびアルマジロ

Brazilian three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus)

三塩基酸 さんえんきさん

tribasic acid

三公社五現業 さんこうしゃごげんぎょう

three public corporations (Japan National Railways, Japan Monopoly Corporation, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) and five government enterprises (postal services, mintage, printing, management of state-owned forests/fields, and monopolization o...

三幅一対 さんぷくいっつい

set of three

三陸沖地震 さんりくおきじしん

Sanriku offshore earthquake (esp. June 15, 1896, March 3, 1933, and March 11, 2011)