三
sānsā HSK1

three

三 sān frequency
three numeral
the number three; 3

三年前我失去了妻子。

sān nián qián wǒ shī​qù le qī​zi.

I lost my wife three years ago.

你凌晨三点去跑步了？

nǐ líng​chén sān diǎn qù pǎo bù le?

You went for a run at three in the morning?

third numeral
the third in a series; ordinal number three

我喜欢第三个的解释。

wǒ xǐ​huan dì sān ge de jiě​shì.

I like the third explanation.

很快，她便成了他的第三任妻子。

hěn kuài, tā biàn chéng le tā de dì sān rèn qī​zi.

Soon she became his third wife.

many numeralverb
many; several; repeatedly; more than a few times
San
a Chinese surname
三 sā
three (colloquial)
equivalent to 仨 sā, a colloquial word for three people or things

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Frequency
Character
Written text
125th most common 1572.4 per million
Movie subtitles
295th most common 560.9 per million appears in 88% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
504.3 per million appears in 76% of films

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
3
Unicode
U+4E09

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CH