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三 — stroke order
Watch how to write 三 (sān) stroke by stroke. 三 has 3 strokes and means “three”. It appears in common words such as 三十 (thirty) and 三星 (Sanxing or Sanhsing township in Yilan c…). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 三
The most common words that use 三 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
三十sānshíthirty三星sānxīngSanxing or Sanhsing township in Yilan c…初三chūsānthird year in junior middle school三亞sānyàSanya prefecture level city, Hainan十三shísānthirteen三角sānjiǎotriangle
How 三 is written
- Radical
- 一
- Components
- 一 ＋ 二
- Formation
- Ideographic — Three parallel lines; compare 一 (one) and 二 (two).