Zi:三

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[sān] three; ​三 generalize; ​三​ Third World [sàn] (HDC:) (​) 三​ (三​)

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

¹sān* {A} num.three; 3more than two; several; manycons. A ∼ B sì do AB repeatedly/haphazardlyshuō∼dàosì 说∼道四 gossip

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The Shuōwén Seal form of 三 sān ‘three’ (the number of the three realms: heaven, earth, man), combines ​ yī ‘one’ (representing ‘man’), and ​ èr ‘two’ (representing heaven above earth), to give 三 sān ‘three’; the old (​) form ​ encloses it in ​.
    Three horizontal strokes, symbolizing the number ‘three’. Variant forms used in special contexts include the following: ​, ​𠬅, ​, ​, ​, ​, ​𠫽, ​, ​, ㊂.
    Compare: ​(​) yī ‘one’, ​(​) èr ‘two’; ☰​ Qián ‘yáng/male’ (⚊​); ​ wáng ‘king’ (unifying the three realms); ​ tǔ ‘earth’.
    Compare: ​ shān ‘beautiful/lush/full hair; natural/decorative lines’; ​(​𠻝) shēn ‘Orion’ (​); ​/​(​𠄷) qí ‘neat/orderly’.
    Note: 《​》 has an old reading 三 “sàn” (fourth tone, not first tone) meaning “​, ​三” ‘repeatedly’, as in 三​ “sānwǔ” (​ “sànwǔ”), ‘三​’. This distinction, attested in Late Middle Chinese, seems to be much older. Such a reading would only be used in modern times in an anachronistic archaicized artificial pronunciation.
    HDZ: 三 : sān : (​) ​; ​, ​ (​三); (​) (三​)
►references: Guǎngyùn:224.12,443.29; Henshall:23; Karlgren:AD766,GSR648a; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.4.3; Lindqvist:336; Mathews:5415; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:76.05; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:002.0.04; Wáng(1993):192; EDOC:1
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