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三返りみかえりさんかえりNounFreq #315300
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Rare term

traditional method of stirring soba while cooking

三皇后さんこうごうNoun
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Rare term

Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

三蓬莱さんほうらいNoun
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Rare term

the three sacred mountains: Fuji, Atsuta, and Kumano

３人婚三人婚さんにんこんNoun
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Rare term

three-way sexual relationship; three-person marriage; ménage à trois; three-person domestic partnership

三つ熊みつぐまNoun
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Rare term

mother bear with two cubs

三方さんかたNoun
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Rare term

day laborer (in construction, etc.); day labourer

刃物三昧はものざんまいNounFreq #160648
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Rare term

swinging a knife around; brandishing a knife

三次元映画さんじげんえいがNoun
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Rare term

3D movie

三族の罪さんぞくのつみNoun
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Rare term

crime for which one's three types of relatives will be punished; crime implicating one's relatives of all three types

三十日月みそかづきNoun
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Rare term

new moon; lunar phase when the moon is completely invisible

美味も喉三寸びみものどさんすんExpression
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Proverb; Rare term

good things do not last long

三枚ガルタさんまいガルタNoun
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Rare term; Card games

three-card betting game (e.g. oicho-kabu)

三国さんごくNounFreq #25573
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three countries

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Historical term

Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE)

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Historical term

Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE)

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Archaic

Japan, China and India; Japan, Korea and China; the whole world

三寸さんずんNounFreq #46974
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three sun (ca. 9.1 cm)

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something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun)

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stall-keeper; huckster; hawker

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Archaic

prostitute of the lowest rank

注連標七五三しめNounFreq #86403
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Abbreviation; Shinto

rope used to cordon off consecrated areas or as a talisman against evil

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Archaic

cordoning off; cordoning-off sign

三鳥さんちょうNounFreq #91955
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Food, cooking

chicken, goose and pheasant

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Archaic; Orig. meaning

cuckoo, Japanese bush warbler and wagtail

丑三つうしみつ《丑満》Noun
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dead of the night; midnight

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Archaic; Orig. meaning

third quarter of the ox's hour (around 2-2:30am or 3-3:30am)

昼三中三ちゅうさんNounArchaicFreq #40843
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highest ranking prostitute in Edo's Yoshiwara red-light district (from the Hōreki era onward)

おさんお三御三お爨御爨NounUsually kanaArchaicFreq #83657
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kitchen maid

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kitchen duties; cooking

三狐神御食津神御饌津神みけつかみさぐじ (三狐神)NounArchaicFreq #244353
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a god of food

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Inari (god of harvests); Uka-no-Mitama (god of food, esp. rice)

三舎さんしゃNounArchaicFreq #283856
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In the ancient Chinese army

three days' march (approx. 36.5 km)

三鼓さんこNounFreq #299074
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Rare term

the three types of gagaku drums

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Archaic

third division of the night (approx. 11pm to 1am)

三角柏御津柏みつのかしわみつのがしわみづのかしわNounArchaic
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leaves used for serving or offering sake, rice, etc.

三益友さんえきゆうNounArchaic
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From Confucius

three kinds of beneficial friends: straightforward, sincere, and well-informed ones

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