三

Company name

Sankyo (Japanese pharmaceutical company)

Family or surname

Sankyō

Food, cooking

soup made with salted or rice-bran-pickled fish, vegetables, and sometimes sake lees (Hokkaido local specialty dish)

triple play

third string (of a shamisen, etc.)

three crops a year

three corners

the three calamities: fire, flood and storm

wicket (e.g. in cricket); castle; stumps

Mahjong

dragon tiles

Buddhism

Buddha triad; image of a Buddha attended by two Bodhisattvas

three outs

Mahjong

three kongs; winning hand containing three kongs

national of a third country

Derogatory

foreigner resident in Japan (esp. Chinese and Korean)

Japanese paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata)

Greek mythology

three Graces; Charites

Oriental paper bush (Edgeworthia chrysantha); mitsumata

fine high-grade Japanese refined sugar

trigon (ancient triangular harp); sambuca

mitsuuroko emblem (three triangles in a triangular pattern; Hōjō clan symbol)

Abbreviation; Grammar

third person singular present

tripodal frame

third cockcrowing

Organization name

Miki Corporation

Female; Family or surname

Miki

Buddhism

three implements for worship (incense burner, flower vase and candle-stand)