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  *三* | 三* | *三
surname San
Zhang San, name for an unspecified person, first of a series of three: 張三|张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry / (dialect) wolf
San Francisco (California)
San Francisco, California
San Andreas Fault, California
Santiago, capital of Chile / San Diego, California
mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese); madam
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945-), Myanmar opposition leader and 1991 Nobel Peace laureate / also written 昂山素姬
San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico
Berkeley (name) / George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, famous British philosopher / Berkeley, university city in the San Francisco bay area, California
San Jose
san'ao decoction (TCM)
Cheng San (precinct in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore) / Cheng Shan GRC, formerly (until the 1997 elections) a group representation constituency (electoral division) in Singapore
Cape San Diego or Santiao, easternmost point of Taiwan Island
reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读. For example, has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
San Marino
(Tw) San Diego, California / Santiago, capital of Chile
Emeryville, city on San Fransico Bay, California
Aung San (1915-1947), Burmese general and politician, hero of Myanmar independence movement and father of Aung San Su Kyi 昂山素季
(TCM) the three truncal cavities (thoracic, abdominal and pelvic), known as the "triple heater" or "San Jiao"
San Marino (Tw)
San Jacinto
San Salvador, capital of El Salvador
San Antonio, Texas
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *壭* | 壭* | *壭
one of the characters used in kwukyel (phonetic "san"), an ancient Korean writing system
Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established
San Andreas Fault, California / also written 聖安德列斯斷層|圣安德列斯断层
(Tw) San Jose
a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, is pronounced as its synonym 兩|两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀|音读. For example, has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)


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