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U+4E09, 三
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E09

[U+4E08]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4E0A]
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U+3222, ㈢
PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH THREE

[U+3221]
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
[U+3223]
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U+3282, ㊂
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH THREE

[U+3281]
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
[U+3283]
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Han character

(Kangxi radical 1, +2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一一一 (MMM), four-corner 10101, composition or 𠄟)

  1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №4

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 76, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12
  • Dae Jaweon: page 138, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 4, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4E09

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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Ideogram (指事) - three parallel strokes. Compare with , one stroke meaning “one”, , two strokes meaning “two”, and , four strokes meaning “four”. Triplication of (“one”). See also . Unrelated to .

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-sum.

Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese should be *srim, but actually is *sam, with a non-retroflex initial consonant. This irregular development should be due by analogy with the initial of number four in EMC, *sijH.

Pronunciation 1


Note: sānr - (1) "the other woman; the other man", (2) "rfdef".
Note:
  • sor1/sornn1 - vernacular;
  • sang1 - literary.

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Definitions

  1. three
  2. (Mainland China, slang, neologism) the other woman; the other man
  3. (Mainland China, slang, neologism) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
  4. a surname
See also
More information Chinese numbers, Normal (小寫 / 小写) ...

In Min Nan numbers, the vernacular (白) pronunciation is the more common pronunciation, while the literary (文) reading is used for reading numbers out loud, such as in phone numbers. Please note that this usage is similar to the usage of the variant for the numeral in Mandarin.

Playing cards in Mandarin · 撲克牌扑克牌 (pūkèpái) (layout · text)
尖兒 / 尖儿 (jiānr) (èr) (sān) () () (liù) ()
() (jiǔ) (shí) 鉤兒 / 钩儿 (gōur) 圈兒 / 圈儿 (quānr), 皮蛋 (pídàn, regional) K (kèi) 小王 (xiǎowáng, black), 大王 (red),
小鬼 (xiǎoguǐ, black), 大鬼 (dàguǐ, red)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (さん) (san)
  • Korean: 삼(三) (sam)
  • Vietnamese: tam ()

Others:

Pronunciation 2



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Definitions

(obsolete)

  1. repeatedly; thrice
       sān   to think carefully

Compounds

  • 三復 / 三复
  • 三復斯言 / 三复斯言
  • 三復白圭 / 三复白圭
  • 三思
  • 三思而行
  • 三思臺 / 三思台

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