Illustration: At a family kitchen table, exactly three triangular rice balls sit separately on a long ceramic plate, each with a neat strip of nori. A child proudly presents the plate to a parent while holding up three fingers with the other hand.

JLPT N5numeralLevel estimated by Bebop

三さん

san

three

Example sentences

  1. 三さん時過じすぎよ。

    It’s just after three o’clock.

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  2. 男おとこが三さん人にんいた。

    There were three men.

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  3. 三さん週間経しゅうかんたった。

    Three weeks went by.

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Kanji in 三

  • 三threeOnサン・ゾウKunみ・みつ・みっつ

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