さん
Meanings
Numeric
1. three; 3
参 is used in legal documents
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (40 in total)
three people
three years
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
Examples (19 in total)
That'll be three euros.
I'd like to reserve a table for three.
The trees are planted three meters apart.
This pond is three metres deep.
Tom sent Mary a three-page letter.
They defeated our team by three goals.
This tablecloth measures 5 feet by 3 feet.
The train for Birmingham leaves from platform 3.
We'll start on page 30.
The length of this ship is 30 meters.
How do I get to Gate 33?
The river is 35 meters across.
The price of rice rose by three percent.
The wall is thirty yards long.
The rope was a couple of meters too short.
Look at the seventh line from the bottom on page 34.
The trees are planted at intervals of thirty meters.
She's thinking of taking a couple of courses at a cooking school.
Land covers about 30 percent of the surface of the earth.