三つ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
三
みつ > みっ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

3つ

Pronunciation

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) みっつ [mìttsúꜜ] (Odaka – [o])^[1]
- (Tokyo) みっつ [mìttsú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [mʲit̚t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

三つ (hiragana みっつ, rōmaji mittsu)

three things [small or without a counter category]

Usage notes

三 (みっ)つ (mittsu) is only used when the items counted have no specific counter category. See Wikipedia's "Japanese counter word" entry for details.

See also

Category:Japanese counters

References

1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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