Pinyin: sān

three

Example sentence

他有三个朋友。

Tā yǒu sān gè péngyǒu.

He has three friends.

What 三 means

(sān) is a Chinese word meaning “three”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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