Jisho

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3 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
Variants:
three
Kun:
み.つみっ.つ
On:
サンゾウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
14 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 三 【サン】 three, 3
  • 三 【サン】 three
  • 十三 【ジュウサン】 thirteen, 13, king
  • 七三 【シチサン】 7 or 3 ratio, hair parted on one side
  • 四三 【シソウ】 one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand, three and a four (in dice games)

Kun reading compounds

  • 三 【さん】 three, 3
  • 三十日 【みそか】 last day of the month
  • 三つ 【みっつ】 three, three years of age
  • 三つ折り 【みつおり】 threefold, folded in three
  • 三つ 【みっつ】 three, three years of age
  • 3つの密 【みっつのみつ】 three Cs, three conditions that facilitate the transmission of infectious diseases (closed spaces, crowds, and close contact)

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 さ、 さい、 さえ、 さぶ、 ざ、 ざえ、 ざぶ、 そう、 ぞ、 ただ、 みつ、 みん、 も、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
san1
Korean:
sam

Spanish

  • tres
  • 3

Portuguese

  • três

French

  • trois
3 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
3 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
23 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
10 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
8 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
4 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
22 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1.A Japanese for Busy People
4 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
5 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2423 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1225 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1689 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
12 Morohashi
1924 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
8 New Nelson (John Haig)
3 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
3 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
21 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
10 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3072 2001 Kanji
0a3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-1-2 SKIP code
1010.1 Four corner code
1-27-16 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e09 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
truth, clarity, abandon, give up
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2457 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 諦観 【テイカン】 clear insight, resignation (to one's fate), acceptance
  • 諦念 【テイネン】 understanding and acceptance, spiritual awakening, a heart that understands truth, (feeling of) resignation
  • 妙諦 【ミョウテイ】 amazing truth, cardinal principle, key (to understanding)
  • 要諦 【ヨウテイ】 important point
  • 諦 【タイ】 satya, truth
  • 空諦 【クウタイ】 truth of emptiness (holding that all things are void)
  • 道諦 【ドウタイ】 truth of the way to the cessation of suffering

Kun reading compounds

  • 諦める 【あきらめる】 to give up, to abandon (hope, plans), to resign oneself (to)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
di4
Korean:
che

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4407 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2516 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1238 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2010 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1444 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
35716 Morohashi
5663 New Nelson (John Haig)
2716 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
467 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
7a9.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-9 SKIP code
0062.7 Four corner code
1-36-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ae6 Unicode hex code