Glyph origin

A West Arabic numeral, ultimately from Indic numerals (compare Devanagari ३ (3)), from a cursive form of three lines to represent the number three. See 3 § Evolution of the Arabic digit for more.

Symbol

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1. The cardinal number three.
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2. A digit in the decimal system of numbering, as well as octal, and hexadecimal.
3. (superscript) The cube of a number or a unit.

   m³ stands for cubic meter.

5. March.

   Comeronyms: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

6. (phoneticsCategory:mul:Phonetics#3, 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)

   Synonyms: ˥, ˦, ˧, ˨, ˩, depending on other values

7. (phoneticsCategory:mul:Phonetics#3, 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.

   Synonyms: ꜂, ꜄

8. (linguisticsCategory:mul:Linguistics#3) Third person.

   Coordinate terms: 1, 2

Noun

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1. (sportsCategory:en:Sports#3, skateboardingCategory:en:Skateboarding#3, snowboardingCategory:en:Snowboarding#3, skiingCategory:en:Skiing#3) Clipping of 360 (“360° spin”)Category:English clippings#3.
2. Replaces the letter E/e in leetspeak.

See also

Classifier

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1. vehicle

Romanization

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1. Alternative transliteration of ꜣ.Category:Egyptian alternative transliterations#3

Symbol

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1. (linguisticsCategory:mn:Linguistics#3, 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.