三
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
| Character | 三 | |||
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| Unicode name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E09 | |||
| Unicode block | CJK Unified Ideographs | |||
| Codepoint | U+4E09 | |||
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Translingual[edit]
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Han character[edit]
三 (radical 1 一+2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一一一 (MMM), four-corner 10101, composition ⿳一一一)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 76, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12
- Dae Jaweon: page 138, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 4, character 3
- Unihan data for U+4E09
See also[edit]
- (Chinese written numbers): 零 or 〇, 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 百, 千, 萬/万, 億/亿
- (Chinese financial form): 叄 or 叁
Chinese[edit]
| - | ||
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| simp. and trad. |
三 | |
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-sum.
Graphically, 三 is formed by writing 一 three times; note that all horizontal strokes are written left-to-right. Since 一 means one, 三 means three. Chinese characters often exhibit tripling to show a group of something; 三 is thus similar to 森 and other characters formed the same way.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): saam1, saam3
- Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): sâm
- Min Nan (POJ): saⁿ / sam / sàm
- Wu (WT Romanisation): se (T1)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ
- Wade-Giles: san1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: san
- IPA (key): /sa̠n⁵⁵/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ
- Wade-Giles: san1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: San
- IPA (key): /sa̠n⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: saam1, saam3
- Yale: sāam, saam
- Cantonese Pinyin: saam1, saam3
- IPA (key): /sɑːm⁵⁵/, /sɑːm³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâm
- IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /sam²⁴/
- Romanisations:
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- WT Romanisation: se (T1)
- IPA (key): /sᴇ⁵³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (三, reconstructed) | ||||||
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| Character (三), Pronunciation 1/2 | ||||||
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Initial: 心 (16) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 蘇甘切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /sɑm/ | /sɑm/ | /sɑm/ | /sɑm/ | /sam/ | /sɑm/ | /sɑm/ |
| Character (三), Pronunciation 2/2 | ||||||
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Initial: 心 (16) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 蘇暫切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /sɑmH/ | /sɑmH/ | /sɑmH/ | /sɑmH/ | /samH/ | /sɑmH/ | /sɑmH/ |
| Old Chinese pronunciation (三, reconstructed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 三 | sān | ‹ sam › | /*s.rum (*s.r- > s-; infl. by 四 *s-?)/ | three | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 三 | sān | ‹ samH › | /*s.r[u]m-s (*s.r- > *s-, infl. by 四 *s-?)/ | three times | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:
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| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
Corresponding MC rime |
Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 三 | 10963 | 三 | 侵 | 3 | 三 | /*suːm/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 三 | 10965 | 三 | 侵 | 3 | 三 | /*suːms/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definitions[edit]
三
Synonyms[edit]
See also[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms
References[edit]
- "三" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-03-21.
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
三
Alternative forms[edit]
- (Japanese financial/formal form): 参
Readings[edit]
- On: さん (san), ぞう (zō)
- Kun: み (mi), みつ (三つ, mitsu), みっつ (三つ mittsu)
- Nanori: か (ka), かず (kazu), さ (sa), さい (sai), さえ (sae), さぶ, (sabu), さむ (samu), ざ (za), ざえ (zae), ざぶ (zabu), そ (so), そう (sō), ぞ (zo), ぞう (zō), ただ (tada), みつ (mitsu), みん (min), も (mo), や (ya)
Compounds[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Numeral[edit]
| < 2 | 3 | 4 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : 三 | ||
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
/mi1/: [mi].
Noun[edit]
- three
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
三 (sam)
Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 삼 (McCune-Reischauer: sam, Yale: sam)
- Name (hangeul): 셋 (revised: set, McCune-Reischauer: set, Yale: seys)
References[edit]
Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
三 (tam)
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