san
- numeral
- /sɑn/
- When counting in Japanese, you say san for the number three.
Examples
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The teacher wrote ichi, ni, san on the board to teach the students numbers.
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In Japanese, san means three.
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In karate class, the instructor called out san as everyone took their third step.
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I have san apples.
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When counting in Japanese, you say san for the number three.
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The teacher wrote ichi, ni, san on the board to teach the students numbers.
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In Japanese, the word san refers to the number three.
Idioms
Compounds
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A large city in western California famous for the Golden Gate Bridge and its bay
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A large area of sea on the coast of western California that forms the harbor for San Francisco
- Archaic
A Japanese woman who works as a hostess or entertainer in another Asian country
A small independent country in southern Europe completely surrounded by Italy and famous for its long history
A form of the Apache language that people speak on reservations in east-central Arizona
An Apache language spoken in east-central Arizona on the San Carlos reservation
A hill near Santiago de Cuba where a major 1898 battle of the Spanish‑American War took place
A large river in central California that starts in the Sierra Nevada and flows to the Sacramento River
Surface Forms
Etymology
San is the Japanese word written 三 that simply means 'three' when you count. So when you say ichi, ni, san you are saying 'one, two, three' in Japanese.