Kana: さん

three

Example sentence

友達が三人います。

ともだちがさんにんいます。

I have three friends.

What 三 means

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

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