3
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Translingual
Glyph origin
A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ३), from a cursive form of three lines to represent the number three. See 3 § Evolution of the Arabic digit for more.
Symbol
- The cardinal number three.
- A digit in the decimal system of numbering, as well as octal, and hexadecimal.
- (superscript) The cube of a number or a unit.
- m3 stands for cubic meter.
- (phonetics, often superscript) the pitch of a tone, perhaps most commonly mid-pitch, but it may instead be high or low depending on local convention (e.g. the highest or lowest pitch if only the numbers 1–3 are used)
- (phonetics, Sinosphere, often superscript) tone number 3, typically identified with dark rising yin shang (陰上). May be identified with departing qu tone (去) if the yin–yang distinction is not made.
Alternative forms
The following are equivalent forms as digits:
- Arabic (Eastern) numerals: ٣
- Arabic (Western) numerals: 3
- Assamese numerals: ৩
- Balinese numerals: ᭓
- Bengali numerals: ৩
- Brahmi numerals: 𑁩
- Chakma numerals: 𑄹
- Cham numerals: ꩓
- Devanagari numerals: ३
- Dhives Akuru numerals: 𑥓
- Gujarati numerals: ૩
- Gurmukhi numerals: ੩
- Hanifi Rohingya numerals: 𐴳
- Javanese numerals: ꧓
- Kannada numerals: ೩
- Kawi numerals: 𑽓
- Kayah Li numerals: ꤃
- Khmer numerals: ៣
- Khudawadi numerals: 𑋳
- Lanna numerals: (secular) ᪃, (religious) ᪓
- Lao numerals: ໓
- Lepcha numerals: ᱃
- Limbu numerals: ᥉
- Malayalam numerals: ൩
- Meitei numerals: ꯳
- Mongolian numerals: ᠓
- Myanmar numerals: ၃
- N'Ko numerals: ߃
- Ol Chiki numerals: ᱓
- Odia numerals: ୩
- Osmanya numerals: 𐒣
- Persian numerals: ۳
- Saurashtra numerals: ꣓
- Sharada numerals: 𑇓
- Sinhalese numerals: ෩
- Sundanese numerals: ᮳
- Takri numerals: 𑛃
- Tamil numerals: ௩
- Telugu numerals: ౩
- Thai numerals: ๓
- Tibetan numerals: ༣
- Tirhuta numerals: 𑓓
- Warang Citi numerals: 𑣣
The following are only equivalent as representations of the cardinal number:
- Armenian numerals: Գ
- Brahmi numerals: 𑁔
- Chinese numerals: 叄/叁, 三
- CJK tally marks: 𝍴
- Counting rod numerals: 𝍫
- Egyptian numerals: 𓏼
- Ethiopic numerals: ፫
- Gothic numerals: 𐌲
- Greek numerals: Γ΄, γ΄
- Hebrew numerals: ג
- Old Persian numerals: 𐏒𐏑
- Roman numerals: III, iii
- Sinhalese numerals: 𑇣
- Tally marks: 𝍷𝍷𝍷
See also
Other representations of 3:
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M2 is used to represent three as the second Mersenne prime.
English
Noun
3 (plural 3s)
- (sports, skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing) Clipping of 360. (360° spin)
American Sign Language
Classifier
3
Egyptian
Romanization
3
Mongolian
Symbol
³
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- (linguistics, superscript) Used after an isolated affix or clitic to indicate that it has three variant forms, dependent on the vowel harmony of the preceding stem or word.
Usage notes
This is usually used in two situations:
- When an affix or clitic varies between using the diphthongs ⟨ай⟩, ⟨ой⟩ and ⟨эй⟩, which occurs due to the fact that ⟨өй⟩ is not used in Mongolian (with ⟨эй⟩ being used where it would otherwise occur).
- When an affix or clitic varies between using the iotated vowels ⟨я⟩, ⟨ё⟩ and ⟨е⟩, as ⟨е⟩ is used in both ө-harmonic and э-harmonic terms.