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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

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.

Han character [edit]

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

  1. three

Descendants [edit]

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Cantonese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping saam1, saam3, Yale saam1, saam3)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ sam, Guangdong sam1, Hagfa Pinyim sam1)

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Japanese cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : 三

Number [edit]

(さん, san)

  1. three, 3

Noun [edit]

(hiragana さん, romaji san)

  1. three

Etymology [edit]

/mi1/: [mi].

Noun [edit]

(hiragana , romaji mi)

  1. three

Kanji [edit]

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Alternative forms [edit]

  • (Japanese financial/formal form): 参

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

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Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]


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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Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin sān (san1), Wade-Giles san1)

Compounds [edit]

Numeral [edit]

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin sān)

  1. three

Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(*sɑm)


Min Nan [edit]

Han character [edit]

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


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(tam)