noun:

• hitting three or more times in a game (NPB) - Baseball term

noun:

• Special Measures Law for USFJ Land Release (1952); Special Measures Law for US Military Bases (in Okinawa)

noun:

• security (e.g. national security) - abbreviation ➜ 安全保障
• US-Japan Security Treaty - abbreviation ➜ 日米安全保障条約
• campaign against the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty (1959-60, 1970) - abbreviation ➜ 安保闘争

noun:

• luck, steadfastness and patience (the three keys to achieving success)

expression / noun:

• playoff for the tournament win with three wrestlers participating - Sumo term

noun:

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

noun:

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

noun:

• three non-rain light cards (high-scoring combination in hanafuda) ➜ 花札

noun:

• sanshin; Okinawan traditional three-stringed instrument; precursor to the shamisen - colloquialism ➜ 三線

noun:

• three secondary Tokugawa branch families (Tayasu, Shimizu, and Hitotsubashi) ➜ 三卿

noun:

• prisoner (for one to three years under the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 徒【ず】

noun:

• three-legged metal pot or kettle (used in ancient China) - archaism

noun:

• three implements for worship (incense burner, flower vase and candle-stand) - Buddhism term ➜ 香炉・華瓶・燭台

noun:

• three spot gourami (Trichogaster trichopterus)

noun:

• the three Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic)

noun:

• règle des trois unités; the three unities (time, place and action)

noun:

• low-ranking samurai - abbreviation - derogatory term ➜ 三一侍
• rolling three and one (in a dice game) - orig. meaning ➜ ピン

noun:

• junior college; vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution - abbreviation ➜ 短期大学

noun:

• junior college; vocationally oriented two or three year post-secondary education institution

noun:

• the three most important cities (esp. in ref. to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya)

noun:

• 1, 2, 3; one, two, three

noun:

• this way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker); this direction ➜ 何方【どちら】・其方・彼方【あちら】
• here (place close to the speaker or where the speaker is)
• this one (something physically close to the speaker)

pronoun:

• I; me; we; us
• this person (someone physically close to the speaker and of equal or higher status)

noun:

• outstanding performance award; outstanding performance prize; most valuable player award
• Outstanding Performance Award - Sumo term ➜ 三賞
• Distinguished Service Medal (e.g. military: US, UK, etc.)

noun:

• person who cannot stick to anything; unsteady worker; monk for three days [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• excellent-good-poor; first-second-third (class)
• (in) three volumes (a literary work)