Kanji: 三

    • Meaning : three
    • ON reading : サン,ゾウ
    • KUN reading : み,み.つ,みっ.つ
    • Nanori : か,さ,さい,さえ,さぶ,ざ,ざえ,ざぶ,そう,ぞ,ただ,みつ,みん,も,や
    • Stroke count : 3
    • Frequency of use ranking : 14
    • Jouyou grade level : 1
    • JLPT : 4
    • Radical :

Words containing that kanji:


  • - さんじゅうけつごう - {chem} triple bond
  • - ざんまい - indulgence/luxury
  • | お - おさんじ - three-o'clock snack
  • みる - ひにみたびわがみをかえりみる - You must always reflect yourself
  • すればめられぬ - こじきをみっかすればやめられぬ - Once a beggar, always a beggar
  • - みつごのたましいひゃくまで - As the twig is bent, so grows the tree
  • にも - ぬすびとにもさんぶのり - Even a thief has his reasons
  • あるある - にどあることはさんどある - What happens twice will happen thrice
  • - こはさんがいのくびかせ - A child is an everlasting responsibility to parents
  • ればし - おんなさんにんよればかしまし - Three women make a market
  • きは - あさおきはさんもんのとく - The early bird catches the worm
  • | - だいさんじせかいたいせん - World War III/Third World War
  • - シャンパン | シャンペン | シャンパーニュ | しゃんぺん - champagne
  • - さんだい - the big three ...
  • - そえじみつぐみ - subscript triplet
  • - おびじょうれんけつさんかくけい - triangle strip
  • - さんじのたこうしき - third order polynomial
  • - さんかくけいしゅうごう - triangle set
  • - さんしゃつうわきのう - three way calling
  • - きゅうめんさんかくほう - spherical trigonometry
  • - むねさんずん | むなさんずん - heart/mind/feelings
  • う - さんびょうしそろう - meeting all three important conditions/being a triple threat/being ideal
  • - さんぜしょぶつ - all buddhas of past, present & future
  • - さんぱくがん - sanpaku eyes (eyes with visible white between the iris and the lower eyelid)
  • - さんみつ - three mysteries (Buddha's body, speech and mind)
  • | 3 - さんかいせい - third year (college) student/junior
  • - しゃみせんがい | シャミセンガイ - lingulate brachiopod (esp. species Lingula anatina)
  • 3 | - こうさん - third year of high school/third-year high-school student
  • | - みつのかしわ | みつのがしわ | みづのかしわ - leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc.
  • - がんざん - New Year's period (January 1st to 3rd)
  • - さんごう - three activities (action, speech and thought)
  • り | り - さんにんのり - three people on the same vehicle (usu. bike)
  • - あのくたらさんみゃくさんぼだい - anuttara samyak sambodhi (supreme perfect enlightenment)
  • - ごじゅうさんつぎ - the 53 Toukaidou stages
  • - さんこうちょう | サンコウチョウ - Japanese paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata)
  • - さんこうごてい - Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors (mythological rulers of ancient China)
  • こう - むこうさんげん - one's next three neighbors/one's next three neighbours
  • - さんらい | さんれい | みれい - adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly/act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly
  • | - さんしょう | みのわた - san jiao (triple heater; functional metabolic organ in Chinese medicine)
  • - さんこう - (in hanafuda) a collection of three non-rain light cards
  • べ - さんもくならべ - tic tac toe/noughts and crosses
  • - ごうざんぜみょうおう - Trailokyavijaya Vidya-raja/conqueror of the three worlds
  • - さいさん - again and again/repeatedly
  • - さんにんしょうたんすうげんざい - third person singular present
  • - さんにんしょうたんすう - third person singular
  • - さんこう - three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments)
  • - さんしゃ - (in the ancient Chinese army) three days' march (approx. 36.5 km)
  • - さんだいじつろく - Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
  • - さんたい | さんだい - (in Tendai) threefold truth (all things are void; all things are temporary; all things are in the middle state between these two)
  • - さんじゅうぼいん - triphthong
  • - さんごう - three monastic positions with management roles at a temple
  • - さんしょう - three ministries (under the ritsuryo system: Ministries of Civil Services, Health & War) | three departments (in Tang-dynasty China: Secretariat, Chancellory & Dept. of State Affairs)
  • - さんぼうこうじん - guardian deity of Buddha the sutras and the sangha | three-person saddle
  • - さいさんさいし - repeatedly
  • - しんとうじゅうさんぱ - the thirteen sects of Sect Shinto (Fuso-kyo, Taisha-kyo, Jikko-kyo, Konko-kyo, Kurozumi-kyo, Misogi-kyo, Ontake-kyo, Shinri-kyo, Shinshu-kyo, Shinto Shusei-ha, Shinto Taikyo, Taisei-kyo, Tenri-kyo)
  • - にほんさんだいじつろく - Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts)
  • つ | 3つ - みっつ - three
  • - みつみ - baby clothes
  • - みつどもえ - 3 fat-comma shapes arranged to form a circle | 3-way struggle (wrestling, etc.)
  • - さんみいったい - the Trinity
  • - さんばがらす - trio/triumvirate/three famous retainers
  • - さんかい - three times
  • - さんかくかんけい - love triangle/eternal triangle
  • - さんかくきん - deltoid (muscle)
  • - さんかくじょうぎ - triangles (used in mechanical drawing)/set square
  • - さんかくほ - jib sail
  • 竿 - さんかん - broad daylight
  • - さんきゅうさんしん - fanned on three pitches
  • - さんきょく - instrumental trio
  • - みつき - three months
  • - さんげんしょく - three primary colors/three primary colours/trichromatic
  • - さんこう - third proof
  • - さんぎょうはん - 3 lines and a half
  • - さんごくいち - unparalleled in Japan and China and India (unparallelled)
  • - さんさい - the three powers: heaven, earth and man
  • - さんし - three outs
  • - さんしゃたいりつ - three-cornered competition
  • - さんじゃくのどうじ - mere child
  • い - さんしゅうのおもい - longing for loved ones
  • - さんじゅうにち - 30th
  • - さんじゅうろっけい - the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat)
  • - みえけん - Mie prefecture (Kinki area)
  • - さんじゅうそう - instrumental trio
  • - さんすけ - male bathhouse attendant
  • - さんじょう - cube
  • - さんしょくいんさつほう - three-color process/three-colour process
  • - さんしん - second postscript
  • し | し - さんにんごろし | さんにんころし - triple murder
  • - さんずんのした - eloquent tongue
  • - さんせんさ - trident dagger
  • - さんそう - sergeant (JSDF)
  • - さんだいこく - the Big Three (countries)
  • - さんだんろんぽう - syllogism
  • - さんとう - three winter months
  • - さんとうせいじ - triumvirate
  • - みっかみばん - 3 days and 3 nights
  • - みっかじ - three-day journey
  • - さんびょうし - triple time (music)/3 important requisites
  • - みつびし - Mitsubishi (company)
  • - さんびゃくだいげん - pettifogging lawyer/unscrupulous or unethical lawyer/shyster | casuist/sophist
  • - さんぷう - forced out on third
  • - さんもん - cheapness/farthing
  • - さんぼん - three (long cylindrical things)
  • | 3 - さんまい - three flat objects (e.g. tickets, pieces of cloth, etc.) | filleting (a fish)
  • | き - さみせんひき | しゃみせんひき - samisen player
  • - さんめんろっぴ - rush of business/versatility/man who can do the work of many
  • - さんもん - large triple gate to temple
  • - さんりゅう - 3rd rate
  • - さんるい - third base
  • - さんろん - Buddhist sect originating in the seventh century
  • - さんかく - armor, helmet & shield (armour) | kakurei, kakuun & kakumei (first, fifth and fifty-eighth years of the sexagenary cycle; times of civil unrest according to onmyou-dou)
  • - みつまた - forked stick
  • - みつぐみ - set of three
  • | | - みつまた | さんさ - three-pronged (fork)
  • - さんい - second lieutenant (JSDF)
  • - さんか - three summer months
  • - さんかい | さんがい - third floor
  • - さんかくきん - triangle bandage
  • - さんかくすい - triangular pyramid
  • - さんかくなみ | さんかくは - choppy sea/chopping waves
  • - さんかくぼう - three-cornered hat
  • - さんきゃく - tripod/three legs
  • - さんきょう - Shinto and Buddhism and Confucianism
  • - みけた - three-digit number/hundreds column
  • - さんけん - the three powers of government (legislative, executive and judicial)
  • - さんこのれい - special confidence (in someone)
  • - さんぎょうこうこく - three-line classified advertisement
  • - さんごうざっし - short-lived magazine
  • - さんさ - major (JSDF)
  • - さんし - recruit (JSDF)
  • | 3 - さんじげん - three dimensions/three dimensional/3D/3-D
  • - さんじゃく - 3 Japanese feet/waistband/belt/cloth girdle
  • - さんしゅのじんぎ - the Three Sacred Treasures (Mirror, Sword and Jewels)
  • - さんじゅうさんしょ - any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region)
  • - さんじゅうはちどせん - the Thirty-eighth Parallel
  • - さんじゅうかん - (papal) triple tiara
  • - さんじゅうしょう - vocal trio
  • - さんじゅうほうかん - (papal) triple tiara
  • - さんしょう - 3 cheers/singing three times
  • - さんじょうき - Triassic (geol.)
  • - さんしょくばん - three-color printing (red and yellow and blue)/three-colour printing
  • - さんにん | みたり - three people
  • - さんにんぐみ - trio/gang of three/threesome
  • - さんぜ - past and present and future existences
  • - さんぜんせかい - the whole world/the universe
  • - さんそうこうりゅう - three-phase alternating current
  • - さんだいとし - the three largest cities
  • - さんちょく - out on a third-base liner
  • | - さんとうぐんそう - sergeant
  • | 3 - みっか - the third day of the month | three days
  • - みっかてんか | みっかでんか - short-lived rule/being in power only for a brief period/brief championship
  • - さんぱいきゅうはい - kowtowing/bowing repeatedly
  • - さんぱん - sampan
  • - さんびゃく - 300/three hundred | 300 mon/trifling amount/two-bit item | shyster
  • - さんぶがっしょう - 3 part chorus/vocal trio
  • - さんぶん - to divide into three (parts)/to trisect
  • - さんもんばん - ready-made seal/cheap literature
  • め - さんぼんじめ - hand-clapping patter (at start of party)
  • - さんまくもの - three-act play
  • - さんめんきじ - human-interest article/page-three news/police news
  • - さんもうさく - three crops a year
  • - さんよう - Sanyo (company)
  • - さんりん - three wheels
  • - さんるいせん - third-base line
  • - みつかど - three corners
  • り | - みつおり - threefold/folded in three
  • - みつばん - three-stroke alarm
  • - みつい - Mitsui (company)
  • - さんこう - three bonds (in Confucianism: master & servant, father & son, husband & wife)
  • - みつこし - Mitsukoshi (department store)
  • - さんがい - past, present and future existences
  • - さんかくかんすう - trigonometric function
  • - さんかくけいいじょう - triangle anomaly
  • - さんかくとうそう - three-cornered fight
  • - さんかくほう - trigonometry
  • - さんかん - Korea
  • - さんきゅう - third grade/third class/tertiary
  • - さんぐん - great army/mighty host/whole army
  • - さんがつのせっく - Girls' (dolls') Festival (March 3rd)
  • - さんまた - forked stick
  • - さんこうしゅうりょう - third and final proof
  • | | - みくだりはん - letter of divorce
  • - さんごくどうめい - triple alliance
  • - さんさい - the three calamities: fire, flood and storm
  • - さんじ - 3 o'clock | 3 o'clock snack
  • 退 - さんしゃぼんたい - out in 1-2-3 order (baseball)
  • - さんじゃくおび - waistband/belt/cloth girdle/obi
  • - さんじっこ - thirty houses
  • - さんじゅうねんせんそう - the Thirty Years' War
  • - さんじゅう - triple/treble/threefold/three-ply/triplicate
  • - さんじゅうさつ - triple play
  • - さんじゅうとう - triple steal (baseball)
  • - さんじょ - third daughter
  • - さんじょうこん - cube root
  • - さんしょくき | さんしょっき - tricolour flag/tricolor flag
  • - さんしん - strike out (baseball)/fanning out
  • - さんにんしょう - third person
  • - さんせい - children of nisei/3rd generation in US
  • - さんぜん - 3000 | many
  • - さんそう - three phases
  • - さんだいせつ - the three grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday; pre-1927)
  • - さんなん - three men/third son
  • | - さんとう - third class
  • - さんとく - three primary virtues: valour, wisdom and benevolence (valor)
  • - みっかみよ - 3 days and 3 nights
  • - さんぱい - adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly/act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly
  • - さんはんきかん - semicircular canals
  • - さんぴつ - three famous ancient calligraphers: Emperor Saga and Tachibana (no) Hayanari and Kooboo Daishi
  • - さんぷ - the Three Urban Prefectures
  • - さんぷくつい - set of three
  • - さんもんしょうせつ - dime novel
  • - さんぼんあし - three legs (two legs and a cane)
  • - さんまいめ - comedian/actor who plays comic roles | figure of fun/laughing stock
  • - さんめん - three sides/three faces/page three (of a newspaper)
  • - みけ - tortoise-shell (pattern)
  • - さんやく - three highest ranks (wrestling, unions, etc.)
  • - さんりょうきょう - prism
  • - さんるいしゅ - third baseman
  • - みつまた - paper bush/mitsumata/Edgeworthia chrysantha
  • - さんげんぱい - dragon tiles (mah-jongg)
  • まで - みつごのたましいひゃくまで - the child is father to the man/lit: the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100
  • - みつご - three-year-old | triplets
  • い - みつぞろい - three-piece suit
  • - みつもん - triple family crest
  • - さんいく - education of the head and hand and heart
  • | - さんがにち - first three days of the New Year (January 1st to 3rd)
  • - さんかく - triangle/triangular
  • - さんかくごと - trigon (a musical instrument)
  • - さんかくそくりょう - triangulation
  • - さんかくかんすう - trigonometrical function
  • - さんかんしおん - alternation of three cold and four warm days
  • - さんきゃくか - tripodal frame
  • - さんぎょうち - licensed red-light quarters
  • | 3 - さんがつ - March
  • - さんけんぶんりつ - separation of powers (legislative, executive and judicial)
  • - さんこう - third watch of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am)
  • - さんぎょうこうこくらん - classified ads
  • - さんごく - three countries | Japan, China & India/Japan, Korea & China/all the world | Three Kingdoms (of ancient China: Wei, Shu, Wu)
  • | - さんさろ - three-forked road/junction of three roads
  • - さんし - deep reflection
  • - さんしゃかいだん - three-cornered conversation
  • - さんじゃくのしゅうすい - sharpened sword
  • - さんしゅう - three autumn months/three fall months/three years
  • - さんじゅうにぶおんぷ - 32nd note
  • - みそじ - age thirty/one's thirties
  • び - さんじゅうむすび - magnus hitch
  • - さんじゅうしょうてん - trifocal
  • - さんしゅん - three spring months
  • - さんせい - frequent reflection (meditation)
  • - さんしょく - three colours/three colors
  • - さんしょく - three meals (a day)
  • れば - さんにんよればもんじゅのちえ - two heads are better than one
  • - さんずん - eloquent
  • - さんぜそう - the Book of Divination
  • - さんせん - third-term election
  • - さんたい - the three character styles: square and semicursive and grass
  • え - さんだんがまえ | さんだんかまえ - triple/three-way/threefold
  • - さんずのかわ - Sanzu River (Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx)
  • | - さんとうぶん - trisect
  • - みかづき | みかずき - new moon/crescent moon
  • - みっかぼうず - one who can stick to nothing/unsteady worker
  • - さんばい - three-fold/three times
  • - さんばん - third/no. three
  • - さんびゃくしょこう - all the daimyos
  • - さんぶがっそう - instrumental trio
  • - さんぶつき - 30% polished rice
  • | - さんもんぶんし - hack writer
  • - さんまい - samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation) | concentrating on something/absorbing oneself in something
  • - さみ - three-stringed guitar
  • - さんめんきょう - three-sided mirror
  • - みけねこ - tortoise-shell cat/cat with three colors of fur (colours)
  • - さんようちゅう - trilobite
  • - さんりんしゃ - three wheeled vehicle (tricycle, motorcycle, etc.)/three wheeler
  • - さんるいだ - three-base hit/triple
  • - さんたいよう - three great oceans (Pacific, Atlantic & Indian)
  • - ぞうかのさんしん | ぞうかのさんじん - the three creator gods (Amanominakanushi no Kami, Takamimusuhi no Kami & Kamimusuhi no Kami)
  • - しちごさん - festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3 | lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3
  • - しちぶさんぶ - seven to three (chances)
  • - ろうどうさんぽう - the three labor laws (trade union law, labor standards law, labor relations adjustment law) (labour)
  • - さんばいたい - triploid
  • - さんへいほうのていり - Pythagorean theorem
  • - みつびしざいばつ - Mitsubishi Zaibatsu
  • - じゅうさん - 13/thirteen
  • - さんじげんえいが - 3D movie
  • - さんえき - three methods of Chinese divination (Lian Shan of the Xia period, Gui Cang of the Yin period and Zhou Yi of the Zhou period)
  • - じゅうさんや - 13th day (of the moon)/the night of the 13th day of 9th lunar month
  • ればしい - おんなさんにんよればかしましい - wherever women gather it is noisy
  • - みついざいばつ - Mitsui Zaibatsu
  • - ていげんてきさんだんろんぽう - categorical syllogism
  • - かげんてきさんだんろんぽう - hypothetical syllogism
  • - したさんずん - eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
  • い - みっかよい - hangover (that still lingers two days after drinking)
  • ヨハネの - ヨハネのてがみさん - Third Epistle of John (book of the Bible)
  • - じょうわんさんとうきん - triceps brachii muscle
  • - せんげんてきさんだんろんぽう - disjunctive syllogism
  • - さんぶかい - Estates General/States-General
  • - さんもんとは - Sanmonto sect (of Shin Buddhism)
  • - さんごくかんしょう - Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki)
  • - さんごくじだい - Three Kingdoms period (of Chinese history, 220-280 CE) | Three Kingdoms period (of Korean history, 4th-7th centuries CE)
  • のおやつ | 3のおやつ | のおつ - さんじのおやつ - afternoon refreshment/afternoon tea
  • - みっかねつ - tertian malaria (causing a fever that recurs every second day)
  • - さんかめいが | サンカメイガ - yellow stem borer (species of moth, Scirpophaga incertulas)
  • - せんみつや - broker/land agent/great liar/unreliable person
  • - ちちぶさんじゅうさんしょ - 34 (originally 33) sacred places in and around Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture
  • - みゆびなまけもの | ミユビナマケモノ - three-toed sloth
  • - さんせつこん - three-section staff
  • 西 - さいごくさんじゅうさんしょ | さいこくさんじゅうさんしょ - 33 temples in the Kinki area containing a statue of Avalokitesvara
  • - さんどく - the three kleshas that poison the heart of man (desire, ill will and ignorance)
  • - ばんどうさんじゅうさんしょ - 33 sacred places in the Kanto Region (which was previously known as Bandou)
  • | | - みけつかみ | さぐじ - any god of foodstuffs | Uka-no-Mitama (god of rice)
  • - さんせい - any of a number of lists of three enlightened men, including (but not limited to): Buddha, Confucius and Christ | Lao-tzu, Confucius and Buddha | Fu Xi, King Wen and Confucius | Yao, Shun and Yu | Yu, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius
  • - さんじん | さんしん - trikaya (three bodies of the Buddha)
  • - さんずい - kanji water radical ("sanzui")
  • - さんぐう - Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort
  • - ぼいんさんかっけい | ぼいんさんかくけい - vowel triangle
  • - だいさんぶちょう - assistant chief of staff, g3
  • - だいさんしゃ - third person/outsider/disinterested person
  • - しゅうさんかい - three times a week
  • セシウム | セシウム137 - セシウムひゃくさんじゅうしち - Cesium 137 (Cs-137) (Caesium)
  • き | き | - たたき | タタキ - mince (minced meat or fish) | robbery/extortion | hard-packed dirt (clay, gravel, etc.) floor/concrete floor
  • | - ねつりきがくのだいさんほうそく - third law of thermodynamics
  • - さんしちにんじん - notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng)
  • クロム - さんさんかクロム - chromic anhydride (CrO3)
  • - さんさんかいおう - sulfur trioxide (SO3)
  • | - たんさんがた - AA size (battery)
  • - さんこうごう - Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort
  • - さんじゅうすいそ - tritium
  • - さんおうれいはい - Adoration of the Magi
  • - さんごうかい - Triad (secret Chinese society usually associated with organized crime)
  • - ちょうさんぼし - being preoccupied with immediate (superficial) differences without realizing that there are no differences in substance
  • - さんこう - Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort
  • - さんはかせ - Three Wise Men
  • - さんこん - combined vaccination for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus
  • - さんだいしっぺい - three major diseases (cancer, cerebral stroke, acute myocardial infarction)
  • - さんにんしょうだいめいし - third person pronoun
  • - さんしゅこんごう - combined vaccination for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus
  • - さんぶんほう - trichotomy
  • - さんしん | さんせん - Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument; precursor to the shamisen | shamisen
  • - みかづきこ - oxbow lake/billabong
  • も - にっちもさっちも - in no way
  • - にさん - two or three
  • かない - にっちもさっちもいかない - being driven into a corner/having no way out
  • - にどさんど - again and again
  • - ににんさんきゃく - three-legged race | cooperation with singleness of purpose (e.g. between companies)
  • | 2 - にとうへんさんかっけい | にとうへんさんかくけい - isosceles triangle
  • とあげず | げず - みっかとあげず - almost every day/constantly
  • - さんこ - the three types of gagaku drums | third division of the night (approx. 11 pm to 1 am)
  • にも - いしのうえにもさんねん - perseverance prevails (lit: even the coldest rock will get warm if sat on for three years)
  • ってまず - さんじゃくさってしのかげをふまず - a student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
  • - ももくりさんねんかきはちねん - it often takes time to bear the fruit of one's actions (lit: planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years to bear fruit, plums take eight)
  • - さんどめのしょうじき - third time lucky/third time's the charm
  • がってまず | さがってまず - さんぽさがってしのかげをふまず - a student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
  • - さんぼういん - Dharma seals/three marks of existence (suffering, impermanence, non-Self)
  • め - みところぜめ - triple attack force out (sumo)
  • - さんかくもくば - ridged wooden bench used in SM practices (and in the Edo period for torturing female prisoners)
  • さがってまず | がってまず - さんじゃくさがってしのかげをふまず - a student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
  • | ばしか - みっかばしか - rubella/German measles/three day measles
  • - ぶかんさんちん - the Three Wuhan Cities
  • - ほとけのかおもさんど - to try the patience of a saint
  • - ふとうへんさんかっけい | ふとうへんさんかくけい - scalene (triangle)/triangle having three sides of different lengths/inequilateral triangle
  • 殿 - きゅうちゅうさんでん - the palace sanctuary, shrine of imperial ancestors and temple inside the Japanese imperial palace
  • げるにしかず | げるにかず - さんじゅうろっけいにげるにしかず - the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat
  • のめしよりき | よりき | のめしよりすき - さんどのめしよりすき - very fond of/more fond of than eating/lit: more important than three meals a day/so fond of that someone would rather not eat than go without
  • - へいめんさんかくほう - planar trigonometry
  • にあげず | げず - みっかにあげず - at very frequent intervals/almost every other day/constantly
  • きは | きは - はやおきはさんもんのとく - the early bird gets the worm (lit: to wake up early gets you three (small value) coins)
  • - むにむさん | むにむざん - in earnest/single-minded/with intense concentration/rushing headlong into | one and only/unique
  • - さんしゃめんだん - parent and child meeting (with teacher for course, career guidance, etc.)
  • - ちょうさんりし - the common run of men/the average Joe/good-for-nothing (person)
  • - ひかくさんげんそく - Japan's three antinuclear principles (against producing, possessing and allowing the entry of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory)
  • のビール - だいさんのビール - cheap, malt-free beer-like alcoholic beverage (lit: "third beer")
  • にする - めをさんかくにする - to look daggers at someone/to be angry
  • にしてる - めをさんかくにしておこる - to be really angry
  • - みつびしでんき - Mitsubishi Electric
  • - みついすみとも - Mitsui Sumitomo/Sumitomo Mitsui
  • - みつびししょうじ - Mitsubishi Corporation
  • - にちどくいさんごくぐんじどうめい - Tripartite Pact (between Japan, Germany and Italy in WWII)
  • - しゃかさんぞん - image of Gautama Buddha flanked by two attendants
  • - ばんざいさんしょう - three cheers (lit: shout 'banzai' three times)
  • - さんかんしゅっぺい - legendary military invasion of Korea in the 3rd century
  • - さんかんせいばつ - legendary military invasion of Korea in the 3rd century
  • - りょうさんにち - two or three days
  • - さんじゅうのとう - three-storied pagoda
  • - ろくさんせい - six-three system of education (six years of elementary school, followed by three years of junior high school)
  • - さんこうさくせん - Three Alls Strategy/Three Lights Strategy (Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War)
  • | - みそさざい | しょうりょう | さざき | ささぎ | さざい | みそさんざい | ミソサザイ - winter wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
  • - さんい | さんみ - third place/third rank
  • - みなぬか | みなのか | さんしちにち - 21st day after death/21st day after birth
  • - さんぼう | さんぽう - three sides | small offering stand
  • - さんえん | さんざる - three wise monkeys (who "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil")
  • スミレ | - さんしきスミレ | さんしょくスミレ | さんしきすみれ | さんしょくすみれ - heartsease (wild pansy, Viola tricolor)
  • - しゃみせん | さみせん - three-stringed Japanese guitar/shamisen
  • - ぎゃくさんかくかんすう - inverse trigonometric function
  • | - さんかくけい | さんかっけい - triangle/three-cornered polygon
  • | 3 - さんくみ | みくみ - set of three/three sets/three classes
  • - せいさんかくけい | せいさんかっけい - equilateral triangle/regular triangle
  • - ぎゃくさんかくけい | ぎゃくさんかっけい - inverted triangle
  • - くちざみせん | くちじゃみせん - humming a samisen tune
  • - さん | み - three
  • - さんぎょう - the three entertainment district enterprises: eating houses, geisha houses, accommodation houses
  • - さんぼう | さんぽう - 3 treasures of Buddhism: Buddha, sutras and priesthood
  • い | つどもえのい - みつどもえのあらそい - three-cornered battle
  • | | | | | - いぐち | としん | みつくち | とけつ - harelip/cleft lip
  • | - さんげん - three-stringed instrument/samisen
  • | - さんたん - praise/admiration/repeatedly crying
  • - くさきもねむるうしみつとき - the dead of night
  • | - さんかくす - delta
  • | 々 - さんさんごご - in groups of twos and threes/in small groups
  • | - さんばんどり - third cockcrowing
  • | - さんけい - three famous beauty spots
  • | | しめ | - しめなわ - (shinto) rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil
  • - さんとくほうちょう - type of kitchen knife
  • | - さんさんくど - three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups
  • び | - さんだんとび - triple jump/hop, step and jump
  • り | ミウラり - ミウラおり | みうらおり - Miura map fold/special technique for folding used on some solar panel arrays
  • - さんしゃさんよう - each of the three being different from the other two/each of the three having his (her) own way
  • | - にそくさんもん - dirt cheap/very cheap
  • - さんむしゅぎ - the "three noes principle" of no drive (indolence), no interest (indifference), and no sense of responsibility (irresponsibility), the term describing the temperament of the Japanese youth of the 1970s
  • - さんわりじち - the "thirty-percent autonomy" of local governments
  • | | - みそか | つごもり | みそ - last day of month
  • - しゃみせんのこま - bridge of shamisen
  • - みつでかえで | ミツデカエデ - ivy-leaved maple/acer cissifolium
  • - さんかくかえで - trident maple (tree) (Acer buergerianum)
  • - みかづきまゆ - arched eyebrows
  • - さんえんしゅぎ - the principle (philosophy) of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil/the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not"
  • - しちこうさんみん - land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent
  • - ふたことみこと - a few words
  • - むなさきさんずん - one's mind/one's inner feelings/(a decision hinging on) how someone feels about it
  • - りくとうさんりゃく - two books on the art of war in ancient China/the secrets (essence) of the art of war/secrets of successful life/precepts for living
  • - さんしゃていりつ - three parties (forces) opposing one another/three-cornered contest
  • - さんもんやくしゃ - third-rate actor
  • - したさきさんぶ - a glib tongue (with fair words)/fluent talk designed to deceive/talk something away
  • | 3 - だいさん - the third
  • き - さんしょくまかないつき - with three meals served
  • - どくしょさんよ - winter, night, and rainy weather/the ideal conditions for reading
  • - さんぜいんが - retribution spanning the threes temporal worlds (the present, the past, and the future)
  • - さんばんしょうぶ - three-game match/three-bout contest/a rubber (in a card game)
  • - どくしょさんとう - using mind, mouth and eyes to understand a book fully
  • - なむさんぼう - I believe in the Three Treasures of Buddhism/Oh my Great Buddha!/Good heavens!
  • - にじゅうさんじゅう - twofold and threefold/doubled and redoubled
  • - ごさんけ - three branch Tokugawa families | big (top) three
  • う - ふたことみこという - to say a few words
  • - こうとさんくつ - very shrewd in preparing a means of escape/being very good at escaping danger
  • - さんきゃくいす - a three-legged stool
  • - さんとうきん - triceps
  • - にてんさんてん - change again and again/seesaw back and forth/being in a state of flux/backtracking repeatedly
  • - さんしんとう - kinsman of the third degree (of consanguinity)
  • オート - オートさんりん - three-wheeler vehicle
  • | - いっしょうさんたん - one reading (of a poem aloud) leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration
  • - とうかいどうごじゅうさんつぎ - fifty-three stages on the Tokaido (Edo-Kyoto highway in Edo-period Japan)
  • | - いちどくさんたん - a reading leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration
  • - えきしゃさんゆう - There are three types of friends worth having--honest, sincere, and well-informed ones. (Confucius)
  • - すいぜんさんじゃく - avid desire/drooling over (something)/watering at the mouth
  • うつ - さんかんけいこううつやく - tricyclic antidepressant
  • - さんじ - three times/cubic
  • - さんど - three times
  • - さんだい - three generations/three periods | third generation
  • - さんぶさく - trilogy
  • うつ - さんかんけいこううつざい - tricyclic antidepressant
  • - いへんさんぜつ - repeated reading/close (careful) reading/careful perusal
  • - げさくざんまい - being absorbed in writing popular novels (cheap fictions)/being absorbed in writing something to amuse oneself
  • - さんしゅ - three kinds/three varieties
  • | - さんぶ - three parts/three copies
  • - さんぼんしょうぶ - a set of three bouts/three-game match/three-bout contest
  • - とうへんさんかくけい | とうへんさんかっけい - isosceles triangle
  • - じゆうざんまい - free/unfettered/according to one's own whims/doing as one likes
  • - さんしゃ - three persons/three parties
  • | - さんとうせい - third magnitude star
  • - さんがいるてん - endless cycle of rebirth through the three worlds of past, present, and future existences (Buddhist)
  • - いちじつさんしゅう | いちにちさんしゅう - (waiting) impatiently/(spending) many a weary day/each moment seeming like an eternity
  • - みかづきけい - crescent shape
  • - もうぼさんせん - the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning (lit: Mencius' mother, three moves)
  • - ゆうとうざんまい - being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures/giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation
  • - あくぎょうざんまい - committing every evil/being given to evil ways/following the path of evil
  • - みつどもえせん - playoff for the tournament win in sumo with three wrestlers participating
  • - さんしょう - three special awards for sumo wrestlers at the end of a tournament
  • み - さんやくそろいぶみ - ritual stomping in unison on the final day of sumo tournament
  • - ふうりゅうざんまい - taking delight in elegant pursuits/being absorbed in such elegant cultural pursuits as poetry, painting and calligraphy
  • - さんこうえんざんし - ternary operator/conditional operator
  • つどもえのい | い - みつどもえのたたかい - playoff for the tournament win in sumo with three wrestlers participating
  • - さんやくかく - sumo referee officiating bouts of san'yaku ranked wrestlers
  • - さんだんめかく - referee officiating the third lowest sumo division
  • - かえりさんやく - former san'yaku-ranked sumo wrestler returning to that rank
  • - さんばんしゅっせ - newly recruited sumo wrestlers in the third round of presentation after mae-zumo
  • - さんかくりゅう - triceratops (dinosaur)
  • - ねんぶつざんまい - being deep in (Buddhist) prayer/praying devoutly to Amida Buddha
  • - ほうとうざんまい - being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures/giving oneself up to debauchery and dissipation
  • - れいかんさんと - breaking into cold sweat when one is very embarrassed or scared
  • これより - これよりさんやく - final three bouts on the last day of a sumo tournament
  • - どくしょざんまい - being absorbed in reading
  • - みこと - three words
  • びの - むすびのさんばん - final three bouts of the tournament day (sumo)
  • - しんさんやく - sumo wrestler newly promoted to a san'yaku rank
  • - さんばんげいこ - a row of training matches with the same opponent (sumo)
  • - どんかくさんかくけい - obtuse triangle
  • - だいさんせいとう - third party
  • - かけつけさんばい - three cups of sake which latecomers to a party are made to drink
  • - だいさんしゃわりあてぞうし - third-party allocation of shares
  • - にほんさんけい - Japan's three famous sights
  • - しちさん - 7 or 3 ratio/hair parted on one side
  • - はものざんまい - (engaging in a) knife fight
  • | - さんぼんたてえいが - triple feature (movie)
  • - だいさんにんしょう - third person
  • - だいさんていこく - the Third Reich
  • - しゅうみっか - three days a week
  • - だいさんせかい - the Third World
  • - だいさんき - the Tertiary period
  • - えいかくさんかくけい - acute triangle
  • - だいさんじさんぎょう - tertiary industry
  • - だいさんかいきゅう - the third estate/the bourgeoisie
  • - だいさんごく - a third country
  • - だいさんせいりょく - a third force
  • - ぜいたくざんまい - indulging in every possible luxury
  • アデノシン - アデノシンさんりんさん - adenosine triphosphate/ATP
  • - したさきさんずん - eloquence or flattery designed to deceive
  • - ちょっかくさんかっけい - right triangle
  • - だいさんじ - the third .../tertiary
  • グアノシン - グアノシンさんりんさん - guanosine triphosphate/GTP
  • - さんしたやっこ - petty underling
  • - さんねん - three years
  • - さんかくちゅう - triangular prism
  • - さんかくよく - delta wing
  • - さんかんば - winner of Japan's three main horse races
  • - さんれん - three-stranded
  • - みふうずら - button quail
  • み - みつあみ - braided cord
  • パスカルの - パスカルのさんかくけい - Pascal's triangle
  • - りょうさん - two or three
  • - さんさしんけい - trigeminal nerve
  • - さんぷん - three minutes
  • - さんかいき - second anniversary of a death
  • - さんかくざ - (constellation) Triangle
  • - さんばいず - vinegar, soy sauce and mirin (or sugar) mixed in roughly equal proportions
  • - さんだんめ - third lowest division in sumo
  • - さんれんぷ - triplet
  • み - さんすくみ - three-way deadlock
  • - さんごくじん | さんこくじん - national of a third country | foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan
  • - さんさしんけいつう - trigeminal neuralgia
  • - みっかかん - three days
  • - さんかくひ - trigonometric ratio
  • 貿 - さんかくぼうえき - trilateral trade
  • - さんじゅうく - triple handicap
  • - みつゆび - bowing while pressing three fingers of each hand on floor
  • - さんれんしょう - three wins in a row
  • | - さんとうしょう - third prize
  • - さんわおん - triad
  • - さんした - underling
  • - さんみんしゅぎ - (Sun Yat-sen's) Three Principles of the People
  • - さんかくてん - triangulation point
  • - さんかくき - triangular pennant
  • - さんかんおう - winner of triple crown (baseball)
  • - みつゆびかもめ - black-legged kittiwake
  • - みつば - honeywort/wild chervil
  • | 3 - さんとうしん - third degree of kinship
  • - さんあくどう - the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals/three evil worlds hell
  • - だつさんしんおう - (season's) record holder in (for) the most strike-outs
  • - さんぶんのいち - one third/a third part
  • - いごさんきゅう - third rank in the game of go
  • | - さんじゅう | みそ - thirty
  • - うしみつどき - midnight
  • - さんじく - triaxial
  • - さんじくしつ - triaxial cell
  • - さんあくしゅ - the world of hungry spirits and the world of animals/three evil worlds hell
  • - さんぞんぶつ - image of the three honorable (honourable) ones
  • - さんどのわおん - common chord/triad
  • - さんごくし - Annals of the Three Kingdoms
  • - さんじくあっしゅくしけん - triaxial compression test
  • - さんぎだいひょう - representative of Gifu and Mie prefectures
  • - さんみんかいこ - three-molt silkworm
  • - じゅさんみ - second grade of the third rank of honor (honour)
  • - みはしらのかみ - three gods
  • - さんじくあっしゅくしけんき - triaxial compression apparatus
  • - たいほうさんもん - three cannons
  • ける - さんしゃをさける - to be outshone/to be put to shame
  • - さんぞう - three branches of Buddhist sutras
  • される - さんるいでさされる - to be put (thrown) out at third base
  • - しょうさんみ - senior grade of the third court rank
  • - さんじくしけん - triaxial test
  • 便 - だいさんしゅゆうびんぶつ - third-class mail matter
  • - だつさんしん - striking a batter out