三
Meanings
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- 1.three
- 2.3
- 1.surname San
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Wiktionary
- 1.three
- 2.the other woman; the other man
- 3.a surname
- 4.repeatedly; thrice
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Etymology
Ideogram (指事) - three parallel strokes. Compare with 一, one stroke meaning “one”, 二, two strokes meaning “two”, and 亖, four strokes meaning “four”. Triplication of 一 (“one”). See also 畺. Unrelated to 丰. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-sum. Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese should be *srim, but actually is *sam, with a non-retroflex initial consonant. This irregular development should be due by analogy with the initial of number four in EMC, *sijH.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
今天三號。
Today is the 3rd.
我们在三楼。
We're on the third floor.
將近三點了。
It's nearly three o'clock.
將近三點了。
It's almost three o'clock.
我們是三個人。
There are three of us.
你有三個願望。
You have three wishes.
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Derived terms
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