noun:

• recruit (former rank in the JSDF) - obsolete term

noun / ~の noun:

• calico (pattern); tortoiseshell-and-white

noun:

• calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat - abbreviation ➜ 三毛猫【みけねこ】

noun:

• three-digit number; hundreds column

noun:

• the Three Urban Prefectures

noun:

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

~の noun / noun:

• three-leaved; trefoil

noun:

• three mountains
• three shrines (of Kumano)
• three kingdoms (of 14th- and 15th-century Okinawa)

noun / ~する noun:

• deep reflection

noun:

• three winter months

noun:

• 15th day of the 1st, 7th and 10th lunar months ➜ 上元・中元・下元
• heaven, earth and man
• 1st January; New Year's Day

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• ternary - Chemistry term

noun:

• three minutes

noun:

• trikaya (three bodies of the Buddha) - Buddhism term

noun:

• three outs

noun:

• three monastic positions with management roles at a temple - Buddhism term

noun:

• three months

noun:

• cuckoo, Japanese bush warbler & wagtail - archaism
• chicken, goose & pheasant - Food term

noun:

• Sasamorpha borealis (species of bamboo grass unique to Japan) ➜ 篠竹【すずたけ】

noun:

• top three ➜ 強

noun:

• large triple gate to temple - Buddhism term

noun:

• three bonds (in Confucianism: master & servant, father & son, husband & wife)

noun:

• forced out on third - Baseball term

noun:

• Grand Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Consort

noun:

• three sun (ca. 9.1 cm) ➜ 寸【すん】
• something small, short or thin (roughly the size of three sun)
• stall-keeper; huckster; hawker ➜ 的屋
• prostitute of the lowest rank - archaism

noun:

• three types of relatives (e.g. father, children and grandchildren; parents, siblings, wife and children; etc.)

~する noun:

• to divide into three (parts); to trisect

noun:

• sanshin; Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument; precursor to the shamisen