三 (sān)
Three.
How 三 is written
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 一 — one
- Traditional
- 三
- Simplified
- 三 (unchanged)
Common words using 三
- 三亞 sānyà
- Sanya prefecture level city, Hainan
- 三分之一 sānfēnzhīyī
- one third
- 三十 sānshí
- thirty; 30
- 三岔口 sānchàkǒu
- At The Crossroads, the name of a famous opera, story from Shui Hu Zhuan
- 三峽 sānxiá
- Three Gorges on the Changjiang or Yangtze, namely: Qutang Gorge 瞿塘峽|瞿塘峡[Qu1 tang2 Xia2], Wuxia Gorge 巫峽|巫峡[Wu1 Xia2] and Xiling Gorge 西陵峽|西陵峡[Xi1 ling2 Xia2]
- 三文魚 sānwényú
- salmon
- 三星 sānxīng
- Sanxing or Sanhsing township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yi2 lan2 xian4], Taiwan; Samsung (South Korean electronics company)
- 三更半夜 sāngēngbànyè
- in the depth of the night; very late at night
- 三月 sānyuè
- March; third month (of the lunar year)
- 三生有幸 sānshēngyǒuxìng
- the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom); (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
- 三角 sānjiǎo
- triangle
- 三里屯 sānlǐtún
- Sanlitun (Beijing street name)
三 in a sentence
這本書我看了三次才看懂。
Zhè běn shū wǒ kàn le sān cì cái kàn dǒng.
“I read this book three times before I understood it.”
How common is 三?
三 is the 125th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 46.1% of all running text.
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