三 sān
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sān
number
three
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (ABC 'sān' num 1; Guoyu '三' n 1; NCCED '三' 1; Unihan '三') -
sān
ordinal
third
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (Guoyu '三' adj 1; NCCED '三' 2) -
sān
number
more than two
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: In the construction 三 X 四 Y (ABC 'sān' num 2; Guoyu '三' adj 2; NCCED '三' 2) -
sān
adjective
very few
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (NCCED '三' 3) -
sān
adverb
repeatedly
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '三' adv) -
sān
proper noun
San
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '三' n 2)
Contained in
- 三北 China's three northern regions
- 毁三观(毀三觀) (of a situation, video clip etc) to make one think wtf!
- 六十三 63
- 三胞胎 triplets
- 八十三 83
- 第三季度 third quarter (of financial year)
- 三生有幸 the blessing of three lifetimes
- 三元醇 propyl alcohol
- 三七二十一 three sevens are twenty-one; the facts of the matter; the actual situation
- 一九九三年 1993
- 三旬九食 to have only nine meals in thirty days; (of a family) on the brink of starvation; in dire straits
- 三部曲 trilogy
- 三迭纪(三迭紀) Triassic (geological period 250-205m years ago)
- 三次曲线(三次曲線) cubic curve (geometry)
- 三明治 sandwich
- 三十 thirty
- 一九三〇年 1930
- 此地无银三百两(此地無銀三百兩) 300 silver taels not hidden here; to reveal what one intends to hide
- 金三角 Golden Triangle
- 三叶虫(三葉蟲) trilobite
- 五帝三王 five emperors and three kings
- 四十三 43; forty-three
- 三顾茅庐(三顧茅廬) three visits to a thatched cottage
- 三联管(三聯管) triplet
- 莲花三太子(蓮花三太子) Third Lotus Prince
- 挑三拣四(挑三揀四) to be picky; to be choosy
- 三胚层动物(三胚層動物) triploblastic animals (having three germ layers)
- 珠江三角洲 Pearl River Delta (PRD)
- 三角龙(三角龍) triceratops
- 三废(三廢) three types of waste product
- 三足乌(三足烏) three-legged Golden Crow that lives in the sun (in northeast Asian and Chinese mythology)
- 第十三 thirteenth
- 朝四暮三 four [chestnuts] in the morning and three in the evening
- 张三，李四，王五，赵六(張三，李四，王五，趙六) four proverbial names; Tom, Dick and Harry
- 三氟化硼 boron trifluoride
- 三王 the three kings
Also contained in
三星乡 、 三仓 、 第三帝国 、 长江三角洲 、 三水区 、 三家分晋 、 三联书店 、 三浦梅园 、 三元运算 、 三佛齐 、 三门峡市 、 三家 、 三江并流 、 三得利 、 长三角
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第三 律曆下 曆法 Volume 93: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Three Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 383
- 卷九十六 志第四十五上: 食貨四 Volume 96 Treatises 49: Finance and Economics 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 289
- 卷二百〇七 志第一百六十 藝文六 Volume 207 Treatises 160: Arts and Literature 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 258
- 卷二百〇六 志第一百五十九 藝文五 Volume 206 Treatises 159: Arts and Literature 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 257
- 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 251
- 卷四十 志第二十: 地理三 Volume 40 Treatises 20: Geography 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 242
- 《十二諸侯年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Feudal Lords Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 237
- 卷五十九 志第四十九 藝文三 Volume 59 Treatises 55: The Arts 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 236
- 卷三十九 志第十九: 地理二 Volume 39 Treatises 19: Geography 2 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 222
- 卷七十 志第二十一: 禮樂四 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Rites and Music 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 219
Collocations
- 三章 (三章) 三章 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧葛覃 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Ge Tan — count: 129
- 三年 (三年) 刺不能三年也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧檜‧素冠 Lessons from the states - Odes of Gui - Su Guan — count: 25
- 章三 (章三) 章三句 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧麟之趾 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Lin Zhi Zhi — count: 12
- 三句 (三句) 章三句 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧麟之趾 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Lin Zhi Zhi — count: 12
- 三曰 (三曰) 三曰比 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 11
- 三事 (三事) 用彼三事 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 7
- 三岁 (三歲) 三歲食貧 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 7
- 三日 (三日) 越三日庚戌 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 武成 Zhou Shu - Successful Completion of the War — count: 6
- 三千 (三千) 騋牝三千 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧定之方中 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Ding Zhi Fang Zhong — count: 6
- 二三 (二三) 二三其德 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧衞‧氓 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wei - Mang — count: 6