Kanji
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Frequency36%
Used in (95 in total)
three; 3
three people
thirty; 30
three; three years of age
three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again
new moon; crescent moon
braid (hair, cord. etc.); plait
Mikawa (former province located in the east of present-day Aichi Prefecture)
set of three; three sets; three classes
triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate
calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat
three days and three nights
age thirty; one's thirties
three-year-old; triplets
three months
three-digit number; hundreds column
three words
three stars (shape); three stars (rating); Orion's belt; Chinese "Three Stars" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
(emblem of) three comma-shaped figures arranged to form a circle; three-way fight; three-sided struggle
bowing while pressing three fingers of each hand on floor
calico (pattern); tortoiseshell-and-white; calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
Mie prefecture (Kinki area)
dead of night; middle of the night; midnight; third quarter of the hour of the ox (2-2:30am, or 3-3:30am)
misuji (cut of beef, usu. from the chuck); shamisen; samisen
three-piece suit
threefold; folded in three
the child is father to the man; (lit.) the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100
the three main Shinto gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children
three boxes; three box-shaped things; three containers
dead of night (when even the trees and plants sleep)
three-pronged fork; trident; trifurcate; three-pronged; three-way (e.g. outlet)
playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating
oxbow lake; billabong
the three main gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto; three precious children
triple family crest
letter of divorce
three temporal states of existence; past, present and future; three generations
set of three
21st day after death; 21st day after birth
3 days and 3 nights
adoration which is performed three times or repeatedly; act of worship which is performed three times or repeatedly
harelip; cleft lip
three-stroke alarm
san jiao (triple heater; functional metabolic organ in Chinese medicine)
triple attack force out
Mikawa manzai; style of manzai originating in the Mikawa region in Aichi prefecture
three corners
wicket (e.g. in cricket); castle; stumps
playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating
mitsuuroko emblem (three triangles in a triangular pattern; Hōjō clan symbol)
last day of the month
soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)
rubella; German measles; three day measles
the three weapons for catching criminals (Edo period)
traditional method of stirring soba while cooking
toddler clothes (by children after age 3, before age 5); baby clothes
winter wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Closterium (genus of algae)
any god of foodstuffs; Uka-no-Mitama (god of rice)
an old man is twice a child
new moon; lunar phase when the moon is completely invisible
Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
Mie (prefecture)
Miwa Shinto (sect of amalgamated Shinto developed in the Muromachi Period)
mother bear with two cubs
three people sitting in a triangle
Miura map fold; special technique for folding used on some solar panel arrays
Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan)
branched bur-reed (Sparganium erectum); simplestem bur-reed
Pheropsophus jessoensis (species of bombardier beetle)
golden spadefish (Platax boersii); Boer's batfish
hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf
Euhadra peliomphala (species of land snail)
barred button quail (Turnix suscitator)
whitetail dascyllus (Dascyllus aruanus); humbug dascyllus; banded dascyllus; white-tailed damselfish
leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc.
Mikuni Station (Osaka)
Miki Station (Miki Railway)
Mikawa Station (Hokkaido)