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Mythic Mandarin

三 (sān): meaning and stroke order

三 (sān) means three, 3, surname San.

三

Simplified
三
Traditional
三 (same form)
Pinyin
sān

Stroke order of 三

三

  • Sān surname San
  • sān three; 3
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 三

  1. sān
    • three
    • 3
  2. Sān
    • surname San

Radical and structure

三
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 三

三 in our stories

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  • 在一个旧箱子里,她看见了一只猫妈妈和三只小猫。

    zài yí gè jiù xiāngzi lǐ tā kànjiàn le yì zhī māomāma hé sān zhī xiǎo māo

    In an old box she finds a mother cat and three kittens.

    From the story The noise upstairs HSK 3

  • 白露准备了三个月,终于要在学校的音乐会上弹钢琴了。

    Bái Lù zhǔnbèi le sān gè yuè zhōngyú yào zài xuéxiào de yīnyuèhuì shàng tán gāngqín le

    After three months of preparation, Bai Lu was finally going to play the piano at the school concert.

    From the story That last piece HSK 3

  • 他拿起一支笔,在白板上画了三个圈,用最简单的话讲了自己的想法。

    tā ná qǐ yì zhī bǐ zài báibǎn shàng huà le sān gè quān yòng zuì jiǎndān de huà jiǎng le zìjǐ de xiǎngfǎ

    He picked up a pen, drew three circles on the whiteboard and explained his idea in the simplest words he could.

    From the story Three circles HSK 4

Stories using 三

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).