三つ
Japanese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]| Kanji in this term |
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| 三 |
| みっ Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 3つ |
Shift from previous 三つ (mitsu).
Alternative forms
[edit]- 三つ (mitsu)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Tokyo) みっつ [mìttsúꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[1][2]
- (Tokyo) みっつ [mìttsú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [mʲit̚t͡sɨ]
Accent [0] is adverbial.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]- three things [small or without a counter category]
Usage notes
[edit]三つ (mittsu) is used when the items counted have no specific counter category. See Wikipedia's "Japanese counter word" entry for details.
See also
[edit]| Japanese number-counter combinations for つ (tsu) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | How many? |
| 一つ (hitotsu) | 二つ (futatsu) | 三つ (mittsu) 三つ (mitsu) |
四つ (yottsu) 四つ (yotsu) |
五つ (itsutsu) | 六つ (muttsu) 六つ (mutsu) |
七つ (nanatsu) | 八つ (yattsu) 八つ (yatsu) |
九つ (kokonotsu) | 幾つ (ikutsu) |
Etymology 2
[edit]| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 三 |
| み Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 3つ |
From Old Japanese. By surface analysis, 三 (mi, “three”) + つ (tsu, generic counter word).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- Alternative form of 三つ (mittsu)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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