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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Etymology

三 is formed by writing three times; note that all horizontal strokes are written left-to-right. Since means one, 三 means three. Chinese characters often exhibit tripling to show a group of something; 三 is thus similar to and other characters formed the same way.

[edit] Han character

(radical 1 +2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一一一 (MMM), four-corner 10101, composition)

  1. three

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Etymology

From Old Chinese *sum, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-thum "three" (compare Classical Tibetan gsum)

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale saam1, saam3)


[edit] Japanese

Japanese cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4   > 
    Cardinal : 三

[edit] Number

(さん, san)

  1. three, 3

[edit] Noun

(hiragana さん, romaji san)

  1. three

[edit] Etymology

/mi1/: [mi].

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji mi)

  1. three

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(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: sam, McCune-Reischauer: sam, Yale: sam)
  • Name (hangeul):  (revised: set, McCune-Reischauer: set, Yale: seys)
  1. three

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[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin sān (san1), Wade-Giles san1)

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(traditional and simplified, Pinyin sān)

  1. three

[edit] Middle Chinese

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(*sɑm)


[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Han character

POJ: saⁿ (saⁿ1), sam (sam1), sàm (sam3)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(tam)

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