sān | three/3 |
三 | three 3 |
三K党 | KKK; Klan; Ku Klux Klan |
三…四 | expressing confusion |
三一三十一 | equally shared among three parties. |
三一节 | (Sunday after Pentecost) Trinity Sunday |
三七 | Panax pseudo-ginseng var. notoginseng |
三七开 | ratio seventy to thirty thirty percent failure, seventy percent success |
三七开定论 | thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong |
三三两两 | in twos and threes |
三下五除二 | neat and quick |
三不 | the three no's (abbreviated catchphrase) |
三不知 | to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end to know nothing at all |
三不管 | come within nobody's jurisdiction |
三世 | the Third (of named Kings) |
三个一组 | triune; triplet; triple; tern; triad; trine; triangle; trifold; plicity trine; trio; triplicity |
三个世界 | three worlds, i.e. Western capitalism, Soviet communism and the non-aligned countries |
三个代表 | the Three Represents enunciated by Jiang Zemin 江澤民|江泽民 as the duty of the Chinese Communist party in 2001, namely: to represent productivity of an advanced society, forward progress of advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the people |
三个和尚没水喝 | Everybody's business is nobody's business. |
三个女人一个墟 | three women makes a crowd |
三个女人一台戏 | three women are enough for a drama (idiom) |