Words
Words with 三
Kanji 三, meaning three, appears in 988 Japanese vocabulary entries.
三族
さんぞく
three types of relatives (e.g. father, children and grandchildren; parents, siblings, wife and children; etc.)
三大節
さんだいせつ
the three grand national holidays (Prayer to the Four Quarters, Empire Day, the Emperor's Birthday; pre-1927)
三段落ち
さんだんおち
three-part joke, where the first two parts are similar and mundane, while the third is the punchline (e.g. How do you get to my place? Go down to the corner, turn left, and get lost.)
三諦
さんたい
threefold truth (all things are void; all things are temporary; all things are in the middle state between these two) (in Tendai)