三拍子

さんびょうし

three important requisites

七三

しちさん ななさん

7 or 3 ratio, hair parted on one side

三拍子揃う

さんびょうしそろう

meeting all three important conditions, being a triple threat, being ideal

三七日

みなぬか みなのか さんしちにち さんななにち

21st day after death, 21st day after birth

七五三

しちごさん

festival (shrine visit) by children aged 7, 5 and 3

七分三分

しちぶさんぶ ななふんさんふん

seven to three (chances)

七公三民

しちこうさんみん

land-tax rate during the Edo period, in which the government took 70 percent of the year's crop and the farmers kept 30 percent

三七人参

さんしちにんじん

notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng)

七三分け

しちさんわけ

side parting, hair parted to one side

三つ子

みつご

three-year-old

三槓子

サンカンツ

three kongs

三貴子

みはしらのうずのみこ

the three main Shinto gods: Amaterasu Omikami, Tsukuyomi no Mikoto and Susano-o no Mikoto, three precious children

三

さん み サン

three

三脚椅子

さんきゃくいす

three-legged stool

三角帽子

さんかくぼうし

three-cornered hat, tricorne

三色団子

さんしょくだんご

tricolor dango eaten during cherry blossom viewing (esp. pink, white, and green)

拍子

ひょうし

(musical) time, tempo, beat, rhythm

三度三度

さんどさんど

three times a day (of meals)

三十三所

さんじゅうさんしょ

any of a number of sets of thirty-three holy places enshrining Avalokitesvara (esp. those comprising a popular pilgrimage in the Kinki region)