三
three
3 strokes. Taught in grade 1. Newspaper frequency rank 14.
Readings
- サン (on reading): 奪三振 (だつさんしん) striking a batter out; 三男 (さんなん) three sons
- み (kun reading): 三菱 (みつびし) Mitsubishi; 三菱電機 (みつびしでんき) Mitsubishi Electric
- みっつ (kun reading): 三日ばしか (みっかばしか) rubella; 三日坊主 (みっかぼうず) person who cannot stick to anything
- みつ (kun reading): 三つ巴 (みつどもえ) (emblem of) three comma-shaped figures arranged to form a circle; 三つ子 (みつご) three-year-old
- ゾウ (on reading)
- Read as a whole word: 三味線 (しゃみせん) shamisen; 津軽三味線 (つがるじゃみせん) Tsugaru-jamisen (type of shamisen and genre of shamisen music); 三味線弾 (さみせんひき) samisen player
Components
Kanji containing 三
- 承 acquiesce
- 寿 longevity
- 寒 cold
- 襄 rise
- 冓 put together
- 菫 the violet
- 僅 a wee bit
- 塞 close
- 寨 fort
- 搴 take
- 羮 hot soup
- 謇 stutter
- 賽 dice
- 蹇 cripple
- 騫 lift up
Words using 三
- 奪三振 (だつさんしん) striking a batter out
- 三男 (さんなん) three sons
- 三股 (さんまた) forked stick
- 三塁手 (さんるいしゅ) third baseman
- 従三位 (じゅさんみ) second grade of the third rank of honor (honour)
- 三菱 (みつびし) Mitsubishi
- 三菱電機 (みつびしでんき) Mitsubishi Electric
- 三菱重工業 (みつびしじゅうこうぎょう) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- 三日月 (みかづき) crescent moon
- 三井物産 (みついぶっさん) Mitsui and Co.
- 三味線 (しゃみせん) shamisen
- 津軽三味線 (つがるじゃみせん) Tsugaru-jamisen (type of shamisen and genre of shamisen music)
- 三味線弾 (さみせんひき) samisen player
- 口三味線 (くちじゃみせん) humming a samisen tune
- 三味線の駒 (しゃみせんのこま) bridge of shamisen
- 三日ばしか (みっかばしか) rubella
- 三日坊主 (みっかぼうず) person who cannot stick to anything
- 三つ (みっつ) three
- 三日三晩 (みっかみばん) three days and three nights
- 三日三夜 (みっかみよ) 3 days and 3 nights
- 三つ巴 (みつどもえ) (emblem of) three comma-shaped figures arranged to form a circle
- 三つ子 (みつご) three-year-old
- 丑三つ時 (うしみつどき) dead of night
- 丑三つ (うしみつ) dead of the night
- 三つ角 (みつかど) three corners
- 三郎 (さぶろう) third son
- 三味 (さみ) three-stringed guitar
- 四三の星 (しそうのほし) the Big Dipper (asterism)
- 四三 (しそう) one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand
- 三五八 (さごはち) sagohachi
965 words in all.