Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N5

14 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 3

Meaning: three

Kunyomi: み.つ みっ.つ

Onyomi: サン ゾウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: いち

Meaning: one

Strokes: 1

Examples

Examples with audio

人(さんにん)   3 people

時(さんじ)   3 o'clock

枚(さんまい)   3 (flat objects)

月(さんがつ)   March

日(みっか)   3 days, 3rd day of the month

つ(みっつ)   3 (pieces)

Onyomi Examples

サン three, 3

サン three

ジュウサン thirteen, 13, king (playing card)

シチサン 7 or 3 ratio, hair parted on one side

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)

Kunyomi Examples

さん three, 3

十日 みそか last day of the month

みっつ three, three years of age

つ折り みつおり threefold, folded in three

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)