三
sān
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The number three, in counting and in figures. Like every number, it needs a measure word before a noun: 三个人 'three people', 三本书 'three books'. 第三 is 'third', 三月 is March and 星期三 is Wednesday.
Số ba, dùng khi đếm và khi đọc các con số. Cũng như mọi số khác, đứng trước danh từ phải có lượng từ: 三个人 (ba người), 三本书 (ba quyển sách). 第三 là “thứ ba” (số thứ tự), 三月 là tháng ba, còn 星期三 lại là thứ tư.
NumeralRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “三” mean?
The number three, in counting and in figures. Like every number, it needs a measure word before a noun: 三个人 'three people', 三本书 'three books'. 第三 is 'third', 三月 is March and 星期三 is Wednesday.
Is “三” formal or informal?
三 is generally neutral.