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三歩下がって師の影を踏まず

三歩さがって師の影を踏まず
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さんぽさがってしのかげをふまず
a student must never forget to honor their teacher (honour)
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三塩基酸

さんえんきさん
tribasic acid
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三王礼拝

さんおうれいはい
Adoration of the Magi
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三家

さんけ
three noble families (Kan'in, Kazan'in, and Nakanoin or Koga); three branch Tokugawa families (Owari, Kii, and Mito)
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三温糖

さんおんとう
dark sweet liquid produced after the third heating in a thermal sugar-refining process
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三辺合計

さんぺんごうけい
the sum of the length, width, and height of a package; length + width + height
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三人遣い

さんにんづかい
three-person operation of a puppet (bunraku)
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三社祭

さんじゃまつり
Sanja Festival (Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo; third weekend of May)
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三化螟蛾

さんかめいが、サンカメイガ
yellow stem borer (species of moth, Scirpophaga incertulas)
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三平汁

さんぺいじる
soup with rice bran pickled or salted vegetables (e.g. carrots, daikon or potatoes) and fish (e.g. salmon, gadid or Arabesque greenling) boiled in a salty broth (sake lees is sometimes added) (Hokkaido local specialty dish)