三

third class

From Kabuki system of ranking characters

comedian; actor who plays comic roles

figure of fun; laughing stock

Prefix; Chemistry

triacid

Baseball

strikeout; strike out; fanning out

three people

Records of the Three Kingdoms (Chinese historical text)

three-digit number; hundreds column

Abbreviation; Abbr. of 中学校３年(生)

third year of junior high school; third-year junior high school student

calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat

sanpaku eyes (eyes with visible white between the iris and the lower eyelid)

three-stranded

trisection; dividing into three (parts)

triangular bandage; sling

triangular kerchief; bandana; bandanna

three-year-old

triplets

three branches of the Tokugawa family (Owari, Kii and Mito)

big three; top three

Mie (prefecture)

Mie Prefecture (Kinki area)

From the Analects of Confucius

three lifetime commandments (youth's femininity, middle-aged struggle, old-age gain)

Buddhism

three categories of precepts (lay, ordination, moral)

three sides; three faces; page three (of a newspaper)

Word usually written using kana alone

mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; Japanese chervil; Japanese parsley

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

three-leaved; trefoil

three words

last day of the month

the third; tertiary

shichi-go-san; 7-5-3 day; festival day for children aged 7, 5 and 3 held on or around November 15

lucky numbers 7, 5 and 3