THREE  三

The NUMBER which is the successor of TWO.
Hypernym
  • NUMBERQUANTITY when COUNTED. [THE DEFINITIONS IN THIS FIELD REMAIN CIRCULAR ON MANY LEVELS AND NEED TO BE CAREFULLY REVISED IN COLLABORATION WITH KARINE CHEMLA.]
    • QUANTITYDEGREE of being MANY OR FEW that CAN be MEASURED OR COUNTED.
      • DEGREEFEATURE of MORE or LESS.
        • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general word for "three"is sān 三 and this word has great syntactic flexibility, and only in a small minority of such usages can the graph be replaced by 參.

2. Sān 參 is to form a triad, and the graph is not replaceable by sān 三.

Attributions by syntactic funtion

  • vadV : 32
  • vadN : 23
  • vi : 9
  • v(adN) : 8
  • v{NUM}adN : 8
  • nab : 3
  • v{NUM}(adN) : 2
  • vpostadV : 2
  • vad.npro : 1
  • v[adN] : 1
  • vt+prep+N : 1
  • v[adN.]postadV : 1
  • n : 1
  • vtoN : 1

Attributions by text

  • 荀子 : 16
  • 說苑 : 11
  • 春秋左傳 : 11
  • 莊子 : 6
  • 淮南子 : 6
  • 論語 : 6
  • 史記 : 5
  • 韓非子 : 4
  • 孝經 : 4
  • 孫子 : 4
  • 春秋穀梁傳 : 3
  • 孟子 : 3
  • 墨子 : 2
  • 禮記 : 2
  • 論衡 : 2
  • 陸機集十一卷 : 1
  • 搜神記 : 1
  • 列子 : 1
  • 老子 : 1
  • 戰國策 : 1
  • 尚書 : 1
  • 管子 : 1
  • 新論-漢-桓譚 : 1

Words

三  sān OC: saam MC: sɑm 59 AttributionsWD

The general word for "three" is sān 三 and this word has great syntactic flexibility, and only in a small minority of such usages can the graph be replaced by 參.

    Word relations
  • Epithet: 江/RIVER Jiāng 江 can refer not only to the Yangtse River, but also to its system of tributaries, similarly for hé 河.
  • Epithet: 軍/ARMY Jūn 軍 is a complete army as a unit, from Spring and Autumn times onwards, normally attached to an army camp. Complete parts of an army are always jūn 軍, rarely shī 師. Hence the expressions sān jūn 三軍, zhōng jūn 中軍, shàng jūn 上軍, xià jūn 下軍. An army is counted by the number of jūn 軍 in it, where each jūn 軍 is said to be 10 000 men, at least in the Qi system. Systems have varied in different states. For detals of the early history see the monograph by KOLB. [IMPERSONAL], [LARGE], [OFFICIAL]

    Syntactic words
  • nset of three
  • nabthree kinds, three types, three categories 仁有三
  • nabactthe doing something three times
  • v(adN)cardinalthree contextually determinate itemsDS
  • v(adN)ordinalthe third item
  • v[adN.]postadVthree times
  • v[adN]N=humthree personsCH
  • vadNthree N; three kinds of Nab
  • vadNordinal: the thirdCH
  • vadNanaphoricthe three above mentioned items
  • vadVthird timefor a third time
  • vadVthree timesthree times
  • vadVthreefoldinto three parts
  • viactdo the same thing for a third time; do something three times
  • vieventhappen three times
  • vikindsto be three of kinds; to have three ways
  • vinumberbe three in number
  • vpostadNthree
  • vpostadVthrice
  • vtoNcausativecause to be three
  • vtoNhavehave three N
  • vtoNstativebe three times the amount of
三  sān MC: sam OC: saam 32 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • v(adN)the third of the contextually determinate NCH
  • vad.nprobeing three in number, constituting a triadCH
  • vadNthe thirdCH
  • vadVthrice; in three ways; under three aspects
  • v{NUM}(adN)three of the contextually determinate NsCH
  • v{NUM}[adN]cataphoricbe three in number, regarding the following itemsDS
  • v{NUM}adNnumberthreeLZ
參  sān MC: sam OC: saam 2 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • vadVa trois; as three participants, with three participants
  • vt+prep+Nto constitute a triad with NLZ
錘  chuí OC: dol MC: ɖiɛ 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • none third (see Chen Qitian p. 474)

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database:

    Searching Wikidata

    Type: