さんげん
Meanings
Noun
1. 15th day of the 1st, 7th and 10th lunar months
2. heaven, earth and man
3. January 1; New Year's Day
Pre-noun adjective
Chemistry
4. ternary
Kanji used
three
origin
Pitch accent
んげん
Composed of
three; 3
unknown (e.g. in an equation); element (of a set); yuan (monetary unit of China); New Taiwan dollar; Yuan dynasty (China, 1271-1368); Yüan dynasty
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
big three dragons; winning hand consisting of pungs or kongs of each of the three types of dragon tiles
little three dragons; winning hand that contains two pungs or kongs of dragons and a pair of the third dragon
three primary colors (colours); trichromatic