三

Music

Tsugaru-jamisen (type of shamisen and genre of shamisen music); Tsugaru shamisen

Grammar

third-person plural

Medicine

Category III infectious disease

Mathematics

cubic equation

Food, cooking

chuck short ribs; chuck steak

six-three-three-four system of education (six years of elementary school, three years each of junior and senior high school and four years of university)

wild ginger trefoil family crest (of the Tokugawa clan); triple hollyhock family crest

Proverb; From the Analects of Confucius

something can be learned from anyone; if three walk together, I'll have a teacher

third quarter (of the year)

Proverb

measure twice and cut once; don't slack off until the job's done properly; go around three times before you take a smoke

Proverb

the non-paying lodger asks for a third helping of rice with much hesitation

Colloquial

the dreaded 3rd week (in the life of a newborn; when some previously quiet babies suddenly turn colic)

tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem

one metropolis and three prefectures (i.e. the Tokyo area: Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama)

three principles on transfer of defense equipment and technology

Christianity

Magi; Three Wise Men

triangle headband; triangular scarf

Anatomy

musculus triceps surae; triceps muscle of the calf

30 km/h zone (area in which the speed limit is 30 km/h)

Three Peaks of Mount Haku (Gozengamine, Kengamine, Oonanjimine)

Baseball

striking out three consecutive batters

one's nearest neighbors; houses in one's immediate neighborhood; the three houses across the street and the two houses on either side of one's house

lost thirty years; period of economic stagnation in Japan that began ca. 1991

Colloquial

the three great desires (sleep, food and sex)