| three; tri- |
| three |
| three people |
| three generations; three periods; third generation |
| winner of Japan's three main horse races |
| thirty |
| the Thirty-eighth Parallel |
| last day of the month |
| 3000; many |
| three-stringed Japanese guitar; shamisen |
| mince (minced meat or fish); seared skipjack tuna; robbery; extortion; hard-packed dirt (clay, gravel, etc.) floor; concrete floor |
| three countries; Japan, China & India; Japan, Korea & China; all the world; Three Kingdoms (of ancient China: Wei, Shu, Wu) |
| third base |
| third baseman |
| three-base hit; triple |
| third daughter |
| three times; thrice; third (musical interval); several times; often; frequently |
| three highest ranks (wrestling, unions, etc.) |
| strike out (baseball); fanning out |
| three sides; small offering stand |
| the third day of the month; three days |
| new moon; crescent moon |
| 3 o'clock; 3 o'clock snack |
| three (long cylindrical things) |
| three flat objects (e.g. tickets, pieces of cloth, etc.); filleting (a fish) |
| the three powers of government (legislative, executive and judicial) |
| three times; cubic |
| three dimensions; three dimensional; 3D; 3-D |
| Sanyo (company) |
| 3rd rate |
| three men; third son |
| 300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; two-bit item; shyster |
| three kinds; three varieties |
| three persons; three parties |
| triangle; triangular |
| triangle; three-cornered polygon |
| Mitsukoshi (department store) |
| three wheels |
| third-term election |
| three parts; three copies |
| trilogy |
| triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate |
| three-legged race; cooperation with singleness of purpose (e.g. between companies) |
| the 53 Toukaidou stages |
| again and again; repeatedly |
| 13; thirteen |
| striking a batter out |
| a third country |
| third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person |
| three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito); big three; top three |
| 7 or 3 ratio; hair parted on one side |
| in groups of twos and threes; in small groups |
| first three days of the New Year (January 1st to 3rd) |
| threefold; folded in three |
| threefold; folded in three |
| in groups of twos and threes; in small groups |
| the Trinity |
| major (JSDF) |
| the three character styles: square and semicursive and grass |
| winner of triple crown (baseball) |
| second anniversary of a death |
| 3 treasures of Buddhism: Buddha, sutras and priesthood |
| 3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle |
| three-stringed instrument; samisen |
| triple time (music); 3 important requisites |
| cheapness; farthing |
| three spring months |
| instrumental trio |
| comedian; actor who plays comic roles; figure of fun; laughing stock |
| third proof |
| third lowest division in sumo |
| triple jump; hop, step and jump |
| triple jump; hop, step and jump |
| third class |
| first three days of the New Year (January 1st to 3rd) |
| three-stringed instrument; samisen |
| tripod; three legs |
| three colours; three colors |
| love triangle; eternal triangle |
| great army; mighty host; whole army |
| three wheeled vehicle (tricycle, motorcycle, etc.); three wheeler |
| instrumental trio |
| triple play |
| three sides; three faces; page three (of a newspaper) |
| three meals (a day) |
| two or three |
| AA size (battery) |
| three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito); big three; top three |
| a third force |
| tertiary industry |
| the Tertiary period |
| three cups of sake which latecomers to a party are made to drink |
| three-o'clock snack |
| final three bouts on the last day of a sumo tournament |
| three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi) |
| adenosine triphosphate; ATP |
| adenosine triphosphate; ATP |
| uranium-235 (U-235) |
| three-wheeler vehicle |
| guanosine triphosphate; GTP |
| cesium 137 (Cs-137); caesium 137 |
| Pascal's triangle |
| Third Epistle of John (book of the Bible) |
| one reading (of a poem aloud) leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration |
| one reading (of a poem aloud) leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration |
| simultaneous contemplation of the threefold truth (form of Tendai meditation) |
| (waiting) impatiently; (spending) many a weary day; each moment seeming like an eternity |
| a reading leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration |
| a reading leaves one with ceaseless sighs of admiration |
| side parting; hair parted to one side |
| (Shinto) rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil; cordoned off |
| (Shinto) rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil |
| decorating shrines and gates with shimenawa ropes for the New Year |
| land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent |
| seven to three (chances) |
| three cheers (lit: shout 'banzai' three times) |
| three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups |
| triennial |
| three-cornered battle |
| playoff for the tournament win in sumo with three wrestlers participating |
| three-stroke alarm |
| three-pronged (fork) |
| three-pronged (fork) |
| harelip; cleft lip |
| three-year-old; triplets |
| the child is father to the man; lit: the soul of a child of three (is the same) at 100 |
| As the twig is bent, so grows the tree |
| 3 fat-comma shapes arranged to form a circle; 3-way struggle (wrestling, etc.) |
| three-cornered battle |
| playoff for the tournament win in sumo with three wrestlers participating |
| playoff for the tournament win in sumo with three wrestlers participating |
| bowing while pressing three fingers of each hand on floor |
| three-piece suit |
| triple family crest |
| set of three |
| braid (hair, cord. etc.); plait |
| forked stick |
| mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; Japanese chervil; Japanese parsley; three-leaved; trefoil |
| three-leaf clover |
| three corners |
| toddler clothes (by children after age 3, before age 5); baby clothes |
| three people sitting in a triangle |
| outermost region of the castle |
| furthest pine tree from a noh stage (of the three placed in front of the bridge walkway) |
| san jiao (triple heater; functional metabolic organ in Chinese medicine) |
| third string (of a shamisen, etc.) |
| hourglass drum used in Nara-period court music |
| triennial |
| triennial |
| triennial |
| notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng) |
| 21st day after death; 21st day after birth |
| three-times-three exchange of nuptial cups |
| underling |
| letter of divorce |
| letter of divorce |
| petty underling |
| past and present and future existences |
| limitless time and space |
| retribution spanning the threes temporal worlds (the present, the past, and the future) |
| the Book of Divination |
| all buddhas of past, present & future |
| cube |
| cube root |
| 1932 Theses; Comintern policy documents urging overthrow of Japan's imperial and metayage systems |
| Mitsui Sumitomo; Sumitomo Mitsui |
| Pheropsophus jessoensis (species of bombardier beetle) |
| Pheropsophus jessoensis (species of bombardier beetle) |
| Mitsui Zaibatsu |
| three people on the same vehicle (usu. bike) |
| ménage à trois; three-way sexual relationship |
| two heads are better than one |
| triple murder |
| third person |
| third person pronoun |
| third person singular |
| third person singular present |
| trio; gang of three; threesome |
| trident dagger |
| Sandai Jitsuroku (sixth of the six classical Japanese history texts) |
| second postscript |
| third place; third rank |
| three-fold; three times |
| triploid |
| dragon tiles (mah-jongg) |
| three primary colors (colours); trichromatic |
| (in hanafuda) a collection of three non-rain light cards |
| Three Alls Strategy; Three Lights Strategy (Japanese scorched earth policy during the second Sino-Japanese War) |
| Japanese paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata) |
| three lords (highest ranking officials in the old Imperial Chinese or Japanese governments) |
| three implements for worship (incense burner, flower vase and candle-stand) |
| three winter months |
| three minutes |
| one third; a third part |
| 30% polished rice |
| trichotomy |
| the "thirty-percent autonomy" of local governments |
| male bathhouse attendant |
| yellow stem borer (species of moth, Scirpophaga incertulas) |
| any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region) |
| winter wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) |
| 32nd note |
| 36 Initials (system for transcribing initial consonants of Middle Chinese) |
| the 36 (ancient Chinese military) strategies (of which the last resort was said to be beating a retreat) |
| the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat |
| the smartest thing in a tight situation is to beat a retreat |
| the Thirty Years' War |
| thirty houses |
| soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year) |
| the thirty guardian deities (a different one for each day) |
| age thirty; one's thirties |
| the whole world; the universe |
| semicircular canals |
| Three Wise Men |
| three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi) |
| three primary colors (colours); trichromatic |
| Pacific blackdragon (Idiacanthus antrostomus) |
| three-pronged (fork) |
| trigeminal nerve |
| trigeminal neuralgia |
| three-forked road; junction of three roads |
| short-lived magazine |
| Triad (secret Chinese society usually associated with organized crime) |
| Japan's Three Famous Mountains (Mt. Fuji, Mt. Tate and Mt. Haku) |
| Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort |
| three-stringed guitar |
| bridge of shamisen |
| samisen player |
| samisen player |
| lingulate brachiopod (esp. species Lingula anatina) |
| triad |
| 3 cheers; singing three times |
| praise; admiration; repeatedly crying |
| three times |
| third year (college) student; junior |
| Mitsui (company) |
| unparalleled in Japan and China and India (unparallelled) |
| national of a third country; foreigner (esp. Chinese and Korean) resident in Japan |
| triple alliance |
| Triple Intervention (diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany and France over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki) |
| Annals of the Three Kingdoms |
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