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
- 三族 three generations ; three clans
- 三十五 35
- 三河 Sanhe
- 三角学(三角學) trigonometry
- 三等分 trisection; trisecting an angle
- 三音度 third (musical interval)
- 三万(三萬) thirty thousand
- 平面三角法 plane trigonometry
- 第三纪(第三紀) Tertiary period
- 三人行，则必有我师(三人行，則必有我師) If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius)
- 三叉戟(三叉戟) trident
- 约翰三书(約翰三書) Third epistle of St John
- 三十而立 to turn thirty years old with accomplishments
- 三军用命(三軍用命) (of a team) to throw oneself into the battle
- 大三 third-year university student
- 一九三三年 1933
- 三色猫(三色貓) calico cat
- 三倍 triple
- 新官上任三把火 (of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office
- 不三不四 dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript
- 三七 pseudoginseng
- 两头三面(兩頭三面) two heads, three faces; complex scheming
- 三级跳远(三級跳遠) triple jump
- 三代同堂 three generations under one roof
- 三分之一 one third
- 再衰三竭 weakening and close to exhaustion; in terminal decline; on one's last legs
- 三度 third (musical interval)
- 三胚层动物(三胚層動物) triploblastic animals (having three germ layers)
- 一中三宪(一中三憲) One China, Three Constitutions
- 三言两句(三言兩句) in a few words; expressed succinctly
- 朝四暮三 four [chestnuts] in the morning and three in the evening
- 三位一体(三位一體) Holy Trinity; trinity
- 一九九三年 1993
- 不等边三角形(不等邊三角形) scalene triangle
- 一波三折 calligraphic flourish with many twists; many twists and turns
- 第三产业(第三產業) tertiary industry; tertiary sector; service sector
- 三酸甘油酯 triglyceride
Also contained in
三种奇特事 、 秦三世 、 三国英雄志传 、 三芝 、 三重县 、 三国志注 、 三字禅 、 六韬三略 、 三水 、 三地门乡 、 三源源 、 三浦梅园 、 三无性 、 三百六十会
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: 292
- 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: 223
- 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: 19
- 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
- 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
- 三曰 (三曰) 三曰比 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 11
- 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
- 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
- 三载 (三載) 三載 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 舜典 Yu Shu - Canon of Shun — count: 5